Jumping Thirty Feet (Unlocking Harmony #5) 

Choir Without Borders: - Jumping Thirty Feet (Unlocking Harmony #5)
Mimi Bornstein - Director
Documentary Song by Kyle Bowen, Mimi Bornstein, Malcolm Brooks and collaborators*
Background: Kyle Bowen tells of a time before his imprisonment, when he was on a riverboat in the Amazon. He felt a calling to jump off the high bridge of the riverboat and trust in a safe outcome. That experience felt spiritual to him. It gave him a belief that he recalls now: “Love grows in caring and faith grows in sharing.”
This is the fifth song in the 12-song series “Unlocking Harmony.” All songs are documentary songs based on the lived experiences of people who are incarcerated or who have been incarcerated. (Read more about this program at docsong.org)
Lyrics
On a river boat in the Amazon
I didn't feel God in my heart
Water so deep you couldn't see the bottom
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows what
There was no electricity, no running water
Felt the still small voice of God
Baptized in the Amazon River
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows what
It's a cool starburst, a spark
A cool starburst, a spark fanned to flame
Love grows in caring
Faith grows in sharing
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows
Jumping thirty feet into God knows what
Soloist
Will Foote - Maine
Sopranos
Sarah Helwig - Québec
Sharon MacLeod - Québec
Anna Rich - Maine
Kevia Richardson - Maryland
Altos
Malika Bakayoko - Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Hazel Delehey - Colorado
Jillian Galloway - Lofoten Islands, Norway
Isabel Hyman - Ohio
Melodi Vär Öngel - New York
Tenors
Christophe Constantin - Bretagne, France
Kirsten Staples - Maine
Celeste Wicks - Ohio
Basses
Ian Brooks - Massachusetts
Peter Galloway - New Hampshire
Warren Galloway - Isère, France
Ben Rodriguez - Ohio
Percussion
Caleb Edwards - Massachusetts
Jud Caswell - Maine
Upright Bass
Malcolm Brooks - Maine
Bass line written by Alex Wilder - Tennessee
Sound design and mixing
Jud Caswell - Maine
Film design and editing
Luke Fatora - Maine
Mastering
Pat Keane - Maine
Special thanks to:
Khalid Antonio - Pennsylvania
Jason Brooks - Stockholm, Sweden
Jody Kerchner - Ohio
Pauliina Perkiö - Stockholm, Sweden
Caroline Rex-Waller - Washington
*Aart Janse von den Bosch - Ohio
Donald Casey - Ohio
Tony Chism - Ohio
Sanford Sensei Doss, Jr. - Ohio
Samuel Houston - Ohio
William Lamarck - Ohio
Jung Jae Park - Ohio
Martin Petersime - Ohio
Robert Plaza - Ohio
George Riggins, Jr. - Ohio
Ronald Shirer - Ohio
Jaytoven - Ohio
William Spidell - Ohio
Van Williams - Ohio
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In partnership with:
Documentary Songwriters: docsong.org/
Unlocking Harmony: unlockingharmo...
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