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Ashes and Dust
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Factory closings, farmers losing their land. Hard times for the average man.
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I'm an amateur lyric writer who has been posting my lyrics on various songwriter boards for the past few years. Every now and then someone offers to put music to one of my lyrics. Since I don't sing or play any instruments these collaborations are the only way my work can be heard. This is a collection of some of these songs. You'll see they are in a couple of different genres.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Classic Rock
Charts
Peak #462
Peak in subgenre #56
Author
Tom Ward, Dan Monk
Rights
2003 Tom Ward, Dan Monk
Uploaded
December 10, 2004
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MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Mill closings in NC have left thousands without jobs. When reading about their stories I was moved to write about it.
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Ashes and Dust Outside Concord they're closing down another mill Twelve hundred jobs gone, leaving only unpaid bills Jim Conway's reward for twenty-seven loyal years Is the pain in his fingers, the endless ringing in his ears A cog in a machine discarded when his time is past Caught in a race where the working man comes in last Ashes and dust The wind blows away What the rain don't rust It all goes around And comes down to the same end Just ashes and dust, ashes and dust ......ashes and dust my friend Sun over Kansas, scorching everything in sight Another crop withers, another man's sleepless night Wes Hardin has toiled his whole life on this land But the mortgage is due, and there's no help for an honest man Four generations his family has worked this farm Now the cycle is broken, his legacy is soon gone Ashes and dust The wind blows away What the rain don't rust It all goes around And comes down to the same end Just ashes and dust, ashes and dust ......ashes and dust my friend Around this country it's the same old scene Not enough trickles down to those who are really in need Working man's left behind his jobs gone overseas Anything's fair if it satisfies corporate greed Ashes and dust The wind blows away What the rain don't rust It all goes around And comes down to the same end Just ashes and dust, ashes and dust ......ashes and dust my friend
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