Alice Gerrard: “Sun to Sun”
Clip: 3/13/2025 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Alice Gerrard performs “Sun to Sun,” a song about gun violence.
Alice Gerrard plays the title track off her 2023 record, “Sun to Sun.” She leans into her folk past for this protest song about gun violence in our communities.
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Alice Gerrard: “Sun to Sun”
Clip: 3/13/2025 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Alice Gerrard plays the title track off her 2023 record, “Sun to Sun.” She leans into her folk past for this protest song about gun violence in our communities.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[melancholic music] ♪ What's wrong people with this old town ♪ ♪ Everywhere I go I hear the same old sound ♪ ♪ Talk, talk, talk, talk from sun to sun ♪ ♪ While we talk another fool goes and buys a gun ♪ ♪ Pretty little girl in her pretty new pink socks ♪ ♪ Got shot up just a-walkin' down the sidewalk ♪ ♪ Dreams all gone, all dead and gone ♪ ♪ While they died, another fool went and bought a gun ♪ [melancholic music] ♪ Sweet little kids sprayed with bullets in a schoolhouse ♪ ♪ No one seems to give a damn, we're livin' in a madhouse ♪ ♪ Pray, cry, pray from sun to sun ♪ ♪ While we pray another fool goes and buys a gun ♪ ♪ Walkin' around in a world gone crazy ♪ ♪ Big shot politicians in their black Mercedes ♪ ♪ Won't do nothin', not one thing from sun to sun ♪ ♪ While they're doin' nothin' ♪ ♪ 'Nother fool goes and buys a gun ♪ [melancholic music] ♪ What's wrong people with the US of A ♪ ♪ Lost our minds and we've lost our way ♪ ♪ Prayers, tears from sun to sun ♪ ♪ While we weep and moan ♪ ♪ Another fool goes and buys a gun ♪ [melancholic music]
Alice Gerrard: “December Daisy”
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Alice Gerrard and her band perform the upbeat bluegrass instrumental “December Daisy.” (2m 24s)
Alice Gerrard: “Get Up and Do Right” and “Fortune”
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Alice Gerrard combines two bluegrass songs into one tune that calls for community action. (3m 6s)
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Alice Gerrard: “Stormy Waters”
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Alice Gerrard performs the bluegrass and gospel classic “Stormy Waters.” (3m 48s)
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Folk legend Alice Gerrard performs songs from communities that have inspired her. (30s)
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Shaped by Sound is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Made possible through support from Come Hear NC, a program of the N.C. Music Office within the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.