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Excerpt from "Talking Union" |
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Words by Lee Hayes, |
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Millard Lampell and Pete |
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Seeger - inspired by |
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Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dustbowl". |
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"Talking Union" ?1958 Stormking Music, |
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Inc., BMI Lately |
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I've been picking up strange vibrations |
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I hear my music now on oldies stations |
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"Put out a CD called "the best of what I was" |
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My picture's on the cover and no one knows |
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Just when you think you've got the wisdom of the ages |
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Nobody seems to want to turn your pages |
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I used to think I was the cat's pajamas |
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Now I'm about as hip as |
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Fernando Lamas |
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Old enough Old enough to be your father |
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Old enough Old enough then |
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And now my kids are taking me to the shows |
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There's hip-hop, rap, grunge music |
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I don't know I like to think I'm still part of the crowd |
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But, how can they hear the lyrics |
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When the music is so loud?! |
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I dig rock and roll music been saying that for a |
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But I wonder if you knew |
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That rhythm & blues begat the rock and roll style? |
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And just like that, way before rap, |
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Woody Guthrie spread the news |
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He told it straight, let us relate |
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This Talking Union Blues: |
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Well if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do |
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You've got to talk to the workers in the shop with you |
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You got to build you a union, got to make it strong |
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But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long |
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You get shorter hours, better working conditions |
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Vacations with pay, take the kids to the seashore |
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Well I remember I was seventeen |
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I was a Birmingham High School rock and roll king |
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The paper talked about how |
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I'd strut my stuff I'd like to read it, |
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but my arms aren't long enough |
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I kinda like my new senior status |
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I don't even care what the latest fad is |
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My g-generation's rediscovered me |
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And now I'm on the cover of modern maturity |
