Save The Rivers (Yaama Ngunna Baaka) Single download
All proceeds from the sale of Save The Rivers will go to the Ruby Hunter Legacy, Mother's Milk Bank Charity, and the Rivers.
“We used to swim across. Jump in off the trees. My father would grow corn, watermelon, and rockmelon. He sold food to the town. We had pigs, cows, a duck, goats, and a horse. It was paradise.”
That was 39 years ago. The word overwrought Boney uses to describe the state of the river today, despite recent rains, is “catastrophic”.
However, a chance meeting between Boney, Victorian singer-songwriter Marcia Howard and others in Walgett helped inspire the song, Save the Rivers (Yaama Ngunna Baaka), which has just been released to draw attention to the plight of Indigenous communities suffering from the drought.
“No one could have dreamt of what was coming. Water back then was life. To go home today and to see all the dreaming, the way I’ve been brought up, it’s all gone ... it’s devastating,” Camellia Boney says.
Liam Phelan. Sydney Morning Herald February 20th, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPkx1crqaxA
This song was written by Marcia Howard and friends at The Corroboree Festival, Walgett, Brewarrina, Burke, in October 2019.
