Monday, August 18, 2008

bluegrass, steinbeck and the dust bowl

don't those three words do something to you? that harder, rougher, wholly human time, and where are we today? softer, tamer, connected but not to the earth, not to each other. a species that held survival in their dirty hands instead of in overfull heads.

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I'm blowin' down this old dusty road,I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road,I'm a-blowin' down this old dusty road, Lord, Lord,An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this a-way.

I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine,I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine,I'm a-goin' where the water taste like wine, Lord,An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.

I'm a-goin' where the dust storms never blow,I'm a-goin' where them dust storms never blow,I'm a-goin' where them dust storms never blow, blow, blow,An' I ain't a-gonna be treated this way.
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