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Dragons
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My best friend once said, "I talked to an old bullsnake, and it told me 'The dragons are only sleeping!'"
alternative blues comedy
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Alternative. Blues. Comedy. Acoustic. Folk. Jazz. Protest. Country. Car songs. Motorcycle songs. Horse songs. Songs about mothers. Songs about being a mother.
Musically, I'm a storyteller. As a storyteller, I use music. Note, 5/10/06: I just took "Ridin' In Alone" off the page, because in my studies (I'm doing my Master of Arts in Humanities, with a Storytelling emphasis, at Prescott College) I have begun to do archival research, and that was one of several songs that were just not correct. Bits and pieces of it were, but the whols thing was incorrect... Damn! And it was one of my favorites! I have rewritten the lyrics, keeping the melody and chorus, and centered on Father Kino, an amazing man who did indeed ride alone throughout Apacheland in the late 1600's, building missions and bringing cattle, wheat, and orchards to Alta Pimeria. Gotta re-record it. I am mostly working by myself right now, although Bill Vasquez (keyboard, small brass, flutes) and I have long-range plans for recording and performing some wildly jazzy stuff. Working to pay the bills, unfortunately, gets in the way of musical time together at this point.
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Charts
#4,988 today Peak #85
#168 in subgenre Peak #3
Author
MaryK
Rights
1998, 2003
Uploaded
February 23, 2004
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MP3 2.4 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I had to write this. It stuck in my head for 15 years before it came out. And it's actually an anti-war song.
Lyrics
In olden times the poet rhymes While kings are castles keeping, Their stories told of heroes bold Protecting maidens weeping. And wide-eyed boys played with their toys Pretending they were sweeping The world all clean of villains mean And warfare's murderous heaping. The mythic beasts are but the least Of tales that we be keeping; But now we feel they are not real We've sown and we are reaping. Though understand the best we can Our world's in trouble steeping-- So best beware, bad people there: The dragons are only sleeping.
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