Click on the Play button to hear the song. This is the vulnerable persons song, Tell Someone. The words are shown below. We are in the process of making a CD of Edwin’s songs to aid teaching. To be kept informed as soon as further material becomes
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‘Tell Someone (You Can Say No)’ is a song that is aimed at communicating with the most vulnerable people in our society. It is designed to convey a message to a person who might be suffering from sexual, physical, or psychological abuse or harassment and tells them that they have a right to say no to this abuse and that it is a good thing that they should tell someone about it.
The idea for the song originates from work done by nurses and teachers in the Wrexham area after I saw their work during the ‘Showing Off Our Bits’ conference in Wrexham in 2007. The project demonstrated at the conference is called ‘Keepsafe’ and involved Amanda Williams Jones and Linda Jones (nurses), Cath Davies (teacher), and Jo Hinchcliff (Project Jiwsi, which works with vulnerable groups of young people delivering developmental SRE). The Keepsafe project focuses on issues to do with inappropriate touching, invading a person’s personal space etc. The three verses in the song use key words such as ‘touch’, ‘push’ and ‘bully’ and are intended to send a message that can be understood by a person with a mild-to-severe learning disability. This song could be easily used with symbol or sign and has been written with that in mind. I love the tune. It’s lovely and warm and you could easily snuggle up to it at any time of day. I have had help by Jane Williams with some of the backing vocals and at some stage would like to ask a friend who has a learning disability to sing the song in my place therefore this song is still unfinished in a way so please feel free to comment on the contents. The finished product will also have some mean banjo playing included.