{"id":1923,"date":"2007-05-30T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/05\/30\/kye-kye-kule\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T02:41:00","slug":"kye-kye-kule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/05\/30\/kye-kye-kule\/","title":{"rendered":"Kye Kye Kule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the summer of 1996, one of the audience-participation songs that Shannon has done has been &#8220;Shay Shay Cool Yay&#8221;.  After watching a Camp School staff member do it before breakfast morning, Shannon knew he had to learn it.  After writing down the words he remembered, it came out like this:<\/p>\n<p>Shay shay cool yay (repeat)<br \/>shay coal fee sah (repeat)<br \/>coal fee sah longa (repeat)<br \/>longa choomonga (repeat)<br \/>hey-a-lay-a-lay (repeat)<br \/>ONE MORE TIME NOW! (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>Ever since then Shannon has done it that way.  If you&#8217;ve seen it live you also know that he adds some crazy &#8220;motion&#8221; as he says each line.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Shannon&#8217;s &#8220;Shay Shay&#8221; world was changed forever.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/Rl5B2_L4NfI\/AAAAAAAAAbQ\/wLfAq55XzCQ\/s1600-h\/images-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_-rOepCflcK8\/Rl5B2_L4NfI\/AAAAAAAAAbQ\/wLfAq55XzCQ\/s320\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070562643395753458\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This morning, Shannon and his kids were listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/giamusic.com\/products\/P-645.cfm?CFID=300513&amp;CFTOKEN=48189339\">&#8220;Old Joe Clark&#8221;, a newer CD from Jill Trinka and John M. Feierabend<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><strong><strong>  <\/strong><\/strong><\/span>All of the sudden, Shannon heard something that sounded awfully familiar:<\/p>\n<p>Kye kye, Kule (repeat)<br \/>Kye kye Kofi nsa (repeat)<br \/>Kofi nsa langa (repeat)<br \/>Kaka shi langa (repeat)<br \/>Kum adende (repeat twice)<br \/>Hey!<\/p>\n<p>It was the exact same song, but with the real words.  Eleven years after hearing it for the first time, Shannon finds out that the words aren&#8217;t just jibberish.  After doing some digging, we found out that this song is actually a Ghanian childrens folk song.  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Oddwalk is going to look into getting booked on the Ghana youth rally circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Since the summer of 1996, one of the audience-participation songs that Shannon has done has been &#8220;Shay Shay Cool Yay&#8221;. After watching a Camp School staff member do it before breakfast morning, Shannon knew he had to learn it. After writing down the words he remembered, it came out like this: Shay shay cool yay&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2007\/05\/30\/kye-kye-kule\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddwalkia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}