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Tatterhood

from Tatterhood by Hana Zara

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Written in June of 2012 for father’s day, the song is a huge thank you to my dad for everything he taught me about life and love. The title, Tatterhood, is the title of a story my parents used to read to me when I was young. It is the story of a scrappy, headstrong girl, born of a queen, who always dressed in rags and rode a goat. It is one of the only folktales I know of where the heroine is not a refined princess, but a wild, barefooted, headstrong girl.

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I was born in a snowdrift and so I learned to play
along the rivers that lay still beneath my feet
And that winter- you walked with me- all the time- through the forest,
I got a little bit of frostbite on my cheek
And I learned then what love is
Cause you carried me inside
you sat me by the fire till I was warm again
And I learned then what love is
you tucked me into bed
you gave me all you had and asked for nothing
Yeah I learned what love is

When my heart was breaking, you picked me up from school
I tried to keep it in, but you knew, you always knew
And you told me you’d been there and I could let it out
You drove ninety miles an hour down the freeway
And we screamed as loudly as that little car could take

And I learned then what love is, you knew I needed help
Let the beast inside me yell and didn’t run
And I learned then what love is,
Love lets you be yourself
Love honestly has want for nothing else

Thank you for not expecting me to be a lady all the time for reading tatterhood and singing lullabies
Oh and sleeping bears sleeping bears, are sleeping in the forest,
till we wake them and shake them and they go dancing through the streets,
Sometimes I’m 4 years old and dancing as I’m standing on your feet,
Oh and thank you for always being there to point me north,
For pullin’ me back in when my ship drifted too far from the shore.
I’m only the utmost very luckiest to have you
as my father, as my teacher, as my family, and my friend.
You understood me so that I could go on dancing once again

And believe me, I’ve come out of these woods without a scratch and now I’m
standing with my arms out on the wide and golden plains
So I can laugh with all my laughter and I can cry with all my pain,
Because the love you taught me is so very easy to translate,

So now that I’m older, I just want you to know,
I didn’t fall far from your tree, but I’m growing roots now of my own
So when your soul wants to travel, and you leave this world behind,
You should know without uncertainty that I will be alright,
Because you told me what love is,
ya carried me inside
you sat me by the fire till I was warm again
And you told me what love is
You tucked me into bed
You gave me all it had and asked for nothing
Yeah I learned what love is

So thank you for not expecting me to be successful all the time
For reading tatterhood and singing lullabies
And sleeping bears, sleeping bears are sleeping in the forest
Till we wake them and they go dancing to the sounding of the drums
Sometimes I’m four years old and dancing as I’m clinging to your thumbs

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from Tatterhood, released September 3, 2013

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Hana Zara is an an evolving collection of musical thought-bytes, worlds turned inside-out, and the scattered debris of our psychic oneness

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