Big Turn

from Time As Been Here by Zawacki

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Big Turn

Here at the big turn down on the river
Ma sails the young ones down to the sea
Here at the big turn down on the river
Pa and his shotgun stand like a tree

Here comes a holy war
Marching up on us
It was too late to start a rapport
No help for that charred burning bus

No one is trusted outside the holler
Hiding among us innocent folk
The enemy wears a clerical collar
Death offers virgins pulling the yoke

All my brothers Fight side by side
We’d live free if we had our druthers
And we won’t be swamped by this hadithal tide

Here at the big turn down on the river
Ma sails the young ones down to the sea
Here at the big turn down on the river
Pa and his shotgun stand like a tree

Big Turn
Vuelta Grande
E pluribus unum spurned
Pax haud bellum today

There aren’t Jihadis
Hiding among on us
We could have stopped them from bombing in our cities
One holds a piece of my wife’s funeral dress

Here at the big turn down on the river
Ma sails the young ones down to the sea
Here at the big turn down on the river
Pa and his shotgun stand like a tree

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from Time As Been Here, released July 23, 2012
Thanks to Bill for playing

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