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Lament for John William Henry

from Slight Return by CANANDAIGUA

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His hammer rings
Clear out through the rails
That stretch out as far as anyone could see
He'll drive that steel
and beat back the earth
They'll give him 10 dimes a day
Say that's all that he's worth
The myth of his strength
The myth of his speed
Myth of a man
Punching holes in the Alleghenies
A symbol of effort
A symbol of work
But a man who'd be damned
From the moment of his birth

Came on up that mountain high
And break on through to the other side

She'd have all her children live free
Oh! however, conditionally
Marble-eyed John
When he left for the bend
From the half light of dawn
Began days with no end
Men who would change the landscape before them
Laid a half a million miles of timber and track
Breath taken by dust
And to dust we return
Birthed of this land
For her love we do yearn

Came on up that mountain high
And break on through to the other side

Words penned by mortal men
Should deliver us from fear
And yet we do find
So little room for us here
Flesh and blood bound
Fettered voices still resound
Man ain't nothin but a man
Who died, nine pounds in his hand

Came on up that mountain high
And break on through to the other side

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from Slight Return, released August 6, 2021
Written, produced and performed by Raul Zahir De Leon
Lap Steel and Bass by Miguel Lacsamana

© 2020 Slow Education (ASCAP).
℗ Baja Dracula 2020.

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CANANDAIGUA Washington, D.C.

Uncommon folk tunes handmade in Washington, DC.

Helmed by Raul Zahir De Leon, Formerly of Stamen & Pistils, Radel Esca, and Dead Artists

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