AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

Wendy Sayuetz is a folk singer, part of the NYC subways music series. She sings the “Amber Waves of Grain” a song about her bike trip across America. She resonates about being drunk with the sights of amber waves of grain. In ordinary Nebraska wheat she sees a glimpse of American’s soul. “With miles of shimmering plains, the journey was somehow complete” she sings. .. Later, back in Manhattan, she is speeding downtown on a rush hour train. “What I found in Nebraska has been hard to sustain in the years that quickly gone by” she muses. “Now, the subway it grinds to a halt, an announcement shatters the air. We’re sorry to inform you there will be a delay, there is congestion at Times Square. Beside me two women keep 10 kids entertained by teaching them a song. I smile as I hear a familiar refrain and I find my self humming along. What I thought I had lost I seemed to have found from these kids on the Number 2 train. One small piece of Nebraska in New York’s underground – for Amber Waves of Grain."