Grade 5
Music Inspired By
All Because you Matter
Written by Tami Charles
Illustrated by Bryan Collier
Written by Sand Point Elementary School
STYLE Session Sept-Dec, 2022
CHORUS
If matter is what makes up – everything
Then everybody in the world has a place
VERSES
Group 1:
Humans, People, Humans and People
Everywhere, every then and every now
The world is changin every day
We’re better together
Always and forever
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We work together
To make the world better
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The world’s on fire
We do what’s desired
Will the world be gone in 50 years
Gotta love your peers
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Group 2:
You Matter
You Matter
Believe that you can
Believe that you will
Believe that you matter
And you will
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You live another day
You live another night
If you believe that you matter
You matter
You matter
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Group 3:
No one knows why, but i know I am smart ’cause I matter
Yah!
I don’t ask about face roasts
Yah!
So I don’t die
Yah!
Cuz I matter
Yah!
Yah Yah, Yah Yah, Yah Yah, Yah Yah, etc….
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Group 4:
We are all connected
You Belong
You are cared for
We are all connected
You Belong
You matter
Chorus Practice
Verse Practice
Instrumental Here
About the Book
All Because you Matter
Written by Tami Charles
Illustrated by Bryan Collier
A love letter to Black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, that they have always mattered, and they always will.
Tami Charles pens a text that is part love letter, part anthem, assuring readers that they always have, and always will, matter.
Meet Your STYLE Teaching Artist
Geoff Larson
Executive Director of Bushwick Northwest, Teaching Artist, Upright Bass Player and Songwriter
Fun Music Websites
Hypercube
Chrome Music Lab
Jazz Computer
