This is a hand game I composed based on a conversation I had with my younger brother at a Pizza Hut when he was 11. He’s always been super into guns, and on this particular night I decided to question why - his answer was “don’t you know? ISIS is coming! I need to protect you all.” I was a tad bewildered, and pressed further with a simple question: “do you know what the kkk is?” He said no. I think my immediate response was laughter - I turned to my parent s and said “isn’t it crazy that he knows he needs a gun to protect us from ISIS, but as a mixed child in Texas in 2018 doesn’t know about the KKK?” So then we had a long arduous conversation - some damage control, if you will.
But I think that’s a conversation more people should be having - not just my eleven year old brother, but adults and teachers and people who aren’t mixed and are mixed and are young or old or rich or poor - everyone might benefit from this conversation.
So here is my piece - an attempt to place a conversation squarely in your mouth, propelled by the body of yourself and a friend. Please perform this work - and make videos of yourself performing this work. And share it with people. I want this one to go far if possible. Then maybe one day this can just be a simple play ground game like “ring around the rosey” - dark in origin, but inconsequential in the present.
Love you all.
Thanks so much for your amazing work KitchenSync Percussion!
Words: [Both]
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember he told me I needed a gun
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember he told me I needed a gun
I remember my brother told me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember eleven year-old telling me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember eleven year-old brother said once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember he told me he needed a gun [Kid 1] Why? [Kid 2] Why??
[Both]
ISIS, ISIS, I need a gun to protect you!
ISIS, ISIS, I’ll prevent them from coming to get you
ISIS, ISIS, I need a gun to protect you!
Kid Gunner Brother Kid Gunner Brother NO!!
[Kid 1] BANG BANG!
[Kid 2] But do you know about the KKK?
[Both] Do you know about the NRA?
Do you know about the CIA observations
of black members of our great nation,
Experimentation done on the
Tuskegee Air Men To see how
far their syphilis went?
I remember my little brother told me, no...at that
Pizza Pizza Hut
Pizza Pizza Hut Pi
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gun
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Bro
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Brother
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Brother 2x
Lock down lock down lock the door
Shut the lights off say no more!
Go behind the desk and hide
Wait until it’s safe inside…
Lock down lock down it’s all done
Now it’s time to have some fun!
4x (round) [Kid 1] My little brother needs a gun my little brother needs a
[Kid 2] My little brother needs a gun my little brother needs a
GUN!
I remember eleven year-old telling me once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember eleven year-old brother said once, at a Pizza Hut
I remember he told me he needed a gun [Kid 1] Why? [Kid 2] Why??
[Both]
ISIS, ISIS, I need a gun to protect you!
ISIS, ISIS, I’ll prevent them from coming to get you
ISIS, ISIS, I need a gun to protect you!
Kid Gunner Brother Kid Gunner Brother NO!!
[Kid 1] BANG BANG!
[Kid 2] But do you know about the KKK?
[Both] Do you know about the NRA?
Do you know about the CIA observations
of black members of our great nation,
Experimentation done on the
Tuskegee Air Men To see how
far their syphilis went?
I remember my little brother told me, no...at that
Pizza Pizza Hut
Pizza Pizza Hut Pi
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gun
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Bro
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Brother
Pizza Pizza Hut Pizza Hut Gunner Brother 2x
Lock down lock down lock the door
Shut the lights off say no more!
Go behind the desk and hide
Wait until it’s safe inside…
Lock down lock down it’s all done
Now it’s time to have some fun!
4x (round) [Kid 1] My little brother needs a gun my little brother needs a
[Kid 2] My little brother needs a gun my little brother needs a
GUN!