Downers Grove

from A New Colossus by Captain Daniels and the Sunnybrook Sailors

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Well I pissed away today just like the past 8 decades of my sorry life
Well I used to mine the coal down in a hole and bitch at dinner to my wife
Well at least we had a roof over our heads and good reception on the radio to entertain the chil’ens every night
But that all changed when boss man came and boarded up the entrance to the sight

Things haven’t been the same
Since that dirty politician took the reins
And the boys all said the commies were to blame
I’m patching up the holes
The rumors from the town next door have promised wind and rain

We’ll I planned to leave inheritance and property for the kids after I passed
But the government sold off the lands to oil barons who poisoned the wells and grass
So I was relocated to a renovated box that was the size of the elevator of the mining shaft
Now my kids hate me and want to put me in an old folk’s institution because I was the blind Republican that voted for the bill that sunk this town into oblivion,
Gave the mayor corporate dominion over foreclosed houses of our friends
Never thought I’d live this long but now this seems worse off than death
Cause I’m the last asshole around from 1910
Now I wait for strangers to give me my medication, clean the bed pan, bring them TV dinners in
This town has been an economic blackhole since that river bed caved in

I’m waiting on a day
That’ll never come ‘til I’m lying in my grave and my fermented corpse dissolves within the roots
My head is in a noose
Gonna kick that rusted wheelchair out from underneath these boots

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from A New Colossus, released October 29, 2021

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Captain Daniels and the Sunnybrook Sailors Salt Lake City, Utah

Anarcho Folkpunk from SLC, UT founded in 2016.
Maxwell- Vocals, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Harmonica, Washboard, Melodica
Marky Terror-Guitars
Tyler Boston- Guitar, ukulele
Street Trash Nate- Drums
Ken Takeno-Bass Guitar
Starly Sam- Banjo ... more

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