another alltime fav of mine.
'Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up
When he's in defeat'
an absolutely epic, horrific, and tragic event in our history.
justified, but mind numbingly brutal. death, pain, and poverty everywhere.
and then, a
century later, we're still singing aboot it.
nightmare.
'In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive.'