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Hello Helicopter (Bottled Opera No. 07)
師 Shī ¦¦¦¦|¦

Hello Helicopter Helicopter Helicopter.
Everyone yell “Helicopter” chop chop wave wave.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-chopping through the sky
above an Indian Ocean island
laid waste by a ten-foot wave wave.
We are in a helicopter looking for life
in the flood-muddy land below low.
Miracle: a lone and naked person
looks up and lifts a hand, as if to say “Hello.”

Hello Helicopter Helicopter Helicopter
Hello Hello Helicopter chop chop wave wave.

Ch-ch-chopchop closer to the wave wave man
and we see he’s not waving. No, no.
He pulls a string back and lets an arrow fly
with the force of his great wooden bow bow.
But we know the metal of our chop chop chop
will split the arrow’s shaft in half half,
so we turn our video camera on the scene
and have a helicopter belly laugh laugh:

We are in a helicopter helicopter helicopter.
Can’t stop heli-helicopter chop chop chop chop wave wave.

Arrow whims up, kima doms in,
and the man with the bow poddles duba grin.
We know fubu sah what he knew from the start:
the helicopter is our great metallic heart
blades beating chop chop, bleeding gasoline.
Arrow cleaves a question deep in the machine:

Mister Helicopter Helicopter Helicopter
must you always ch-ch-chop chop wave wave?
Mister Helicopter Helicopter Helicopter
kill the people who you came to save?
Helicopter Helicopter ch-ch-ch-ch
ch-ch-ch-ch ch-ch-ch-ch ch-ch-ch-ch
Wave.

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from Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas, released January 27, 2009
Music by Byron Au Yong
Words by Aaron Jafferis

David Stutz, baritone
James Whetzel, percussion

Tom Stiles, audio engineer
Jack Straw Productions | Seattle

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Byron Au Yong composes songs of dislocation, music for a changing world.

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