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Bill Mallonee​/​WPA - BURLINGTON NORTHERN

from KID HEART​/​WPA 11 Bill Mallonee by Bill Mallonee & Vigilantes of Love

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BURLINGTON-NORTHERN music/lyrics: bill mallonee

Gave up the wheat, gave up on the cattle
gave up on a shade tree garage
black & white freeze-frame, photo montage
the tracks led in here from nowhere it seems
and those tracks led back to the same place again
to the same old place again

At night there were things you could hear in the wind
the crashing of steel and the cursing of men
every single soul stormed tossed
switch yards and couplings and stories of ust
moving Black Hills coal to the shiny metropolis
the shiny metropolis

CHORUS:
you shrug your shoulders at fate
and at the mouth of the grave
it's easy to get lost and it's hard to get saves
kid, if this was the town you were born in
if this was the town you were born in
if this was the town you were born in
you'll take your place on the Burlington-Northern

3. The unions, well, they did...their very best
to protect what little we had left
the weight of all things intangible
so you learn it my feel and you know by smell
it's there in your sweat and the secrets you can't tell
secrets you can't tell

4. Shepherds can't heal the deepest of needs
there's not a prophet with a vision to bequeath
no future kings to anoint
but i got me and baby, i got you
maybe not the best arrangement
but i think it'll do
faith stretched out to the breakin' point

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from KID HEART​/​WPA 11 Bill Mallonee, released August 7, 2011
Bill Mallonee: all instruments

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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