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This Machine
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Woody Guthrie during WW II painted a sign on his guitar that said "This Machine Kills Fascists." I was pondering my guitar(s) and how they seem to have more control over me than I do of them. 7/2001 - Fort Lauderdale
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Acoustic SingerSongwriter Thermonuclear Bottle Washer
Me and a guitar. I think what I do might be described as "Allegorical American Music." I'm in love with the mystery of three chords, a simple melody and sometimes obtuse lyrics. In this digital world of sampled pure tones and instant "professionalism" these are songs written as simple arrangements for guitar and voice in the American song writing folk tradition. Everything is recorded straight off into a couple of mics with no "fancy" multi-tracking, sampling or "real" production. I hope you might enjoy them. - john ford
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #219
Peak in subgenre #40
Author
John Ford
Rights
2001
Uploaded
April 25, 2002
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MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
My love/hate affair with all forms of the inverse curve.
Lyrics
This machine once killed Fascists this here machine once fell trees this machine made a million but I swear to God it's about to get the best of me The weight of the heavens on a boxcar no grace in hell can make it last blur of the footsteps on a blacktop running down a rat hole from the past Oh God damn who I am So I shall not forever be please rebind these chains I have and turn away from me held up high in the glory begged the call of the earth ring-out all the untold stories left to die for what it's worth Make a prayer for the angels burn me up to build a thirst All the risen and the fallen It lools like someone got here first Oh God damn who I am why must I be the one who sees spit on my eyes and make me blind to the wound that never bleeds This machine once killed Fascists this here machine once fell trees this machine made a million but I swear to God it's about to kill me
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