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May 6, 2006
Toddler troubadour sings against Ratner
Brooklyn Papers:
If you’re under 10, this is your Woodstock: Children’s folk singer Dan Zanes — the Bob Dylan of the pre-school set — has joined the opposition to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project and will headline an anti-project concert next month.Zanes, a resident of Cobble Hill, became a member of the advisory committee of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn last month and now hopes to spread his anti-Ratner message through song.
“My opposition is mostly about saving the soul of Brooklyn,” Zanes (pictured right) told The Brooklyn Papers. “Everything I do is about community — in my case, the spirit that comes from making music. That’s what Brooklyn means right now. That’s why we came here. But Ratner’s project is in direct opposition to all that’s good, soulful and communal about Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Papers also published the lyrics to one of Zanes' songs about strolling through a low-rise borough:
Wander in the Summer Wind
Take a left on Kane Street
Another one on Henry
Take a look around us
For anyone we know
Up the hill and down again
Hand in hand
We’ll be feeling grand
When we wander in the summer wind
I’ll take you to the river
Maybe down to Red Hook
Eat a few tamales
Over by the soccer games
Basketballs are flying
Over by the schoolyard
I hear the breeze
Call your name
High and low
People that we know
They say, “Hey there”
And “How’ve you been?”
Good, good, good
And do you think you would
Like to wander in the summer wind
We can take the F train
Right on up to Ninth Street
Walk on to the park
To where the steel drums play
Dance around in circles
With anyone that we meet
All this could happen
On a summer Saturday
Posted by amy at May 6, 2006 1:08 PM