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The Long Way (Remastered)

from School Songs by Tim Koehn

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This pun came to mind one day walking home from school through the backstreets of Dhaka as I considered my pending move to Lilongwe, Malawi. It made its way into a song, then I shared it with my after-school student drumming club, and it became one of our favorite songs to play. It also serves as a symbolic connecting ground for Bangladesh and Malawi with the tabla representing the subcontinent and the xylophones representing Africa. Sartaaj Hussain (a Grade 10 student at International School Dhaka) and I recorded it in my classroom a few days before school got out for the summer.

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If you take the long way all the way to Lilongwe, it's a long way.

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from School Songs, released July 6, 2013
Sartaaj Hussain - tabla, xylophone
Tim Koehn - guitar, vocals, xylophone

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Tim Koehn Nicosia, Cyprus

Tim Koehn, currently based in Cyprus, teaches for a living but writes and makes music any chance he gets.

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