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Just Like Tom Paine's Blues

from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album) by Bardonthewire

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The woods were blurred with menace,
I could not read the signs,
My Common Sense was fading,
It has so many times.

The Rights of Man and Woman
Like road-kill on the track,
Too deep and late the forest
To think of turning back.

Midsummer in the greenwood,
Midwinter chill within,
The starry sky of reason,
The night as dark as sin.

Tom Paine is pointing down the road
To new world Washington;
I meet the clear and steady eye
Of Revolution

That maps a Constitution through
The dead decaying mess,
The Royal Burkshire Hunters’ praise
Of murky wilderness.

Midsummer in the greenwood,
Midwinter chill within,
The starry sky of reason,
The Paine of hope within.

© Gareth Calway 2015 first published in 'Doin Different, 39 New Ballads from the East of England' (Popppyland)

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from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album), released November 22, 2019

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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