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Down Home Comfort
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Track 9 from GONNA RISE UP; featuring Jeff Taylor, Paul Chavis, Mike Dunbar, Razzy Bailey and the Nashville Session Players
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Top Nashville musicians and vocalists perform 21 songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-
Top Nashville musicians and session vocalists perform songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-war, poverty, health, taxation, immigration, environmental, social security privatization, gun control, negative effects of neo-con and religious 'right' agendas, etc. Genres include country, blues, rock, folk, R&B soul, pop, Native USA, bluegrass, Americana, Southern Rock, Rock-a-Billy and alternative.
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Genre
Rock • Southern Rock
Charts
Peak #631
Peak in subgenre #31
Author
Richard Aberdeen
Rights
2006 Freedom Tracks Music
Uploaded
September 12, 2006
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:12
Story behind the song
Inspired by Orlando Ward of Midnight Mission; Los Angeles, California and Los Angeles Times reporter and friend of the forgotten children of Skid Row, Steve Lopez. Dedicated to Operation Stand Down; Nashville, TN.
Lyrics
Somewhere between midnight and a frightened century dawn I awoke from a fragile sleep, all my hopes an’ dreams were gone Everything I once had in life ‘cept these few clothes on my back Lost somewhere between Saigon and a Skid Row mission tract They call me Joe American and I come from Dixie Land Played a little football and worked hard with my hands Down here on 5th an’ Julian the future don’t look so bright Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight A rebel son reborn on the wrong side of yesterday Decorated soldier abandoned on Living Hell Street LA Voices won’t let me rest and between memories recast Lie fragments of my Virginia home buried in a distant past They call me Joe American and I fought in the war Lost both legs an’ my best friend, never questioned the reasons for But down here on 5th an’ Julian the future don’t look so bright Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight So take this letter on up to D.C. from a relative of Robert E. Lee The family tree’s alive in Dixie; ain’t gonna let you turn your backs on me Yeah, the call me Joe American and I come from Dixie Land And I wrote this simple note, try’n to help ya’ll understand You know, after the war they treated Lee and other veterans right Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight Lord knows, sure could use a little down home comfort tonight
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