Artist: The Orphans
Song: For an old kentucky anarchist
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[Verse 1]
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High upon a forgotten mountaintop lay a garden
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Unattended and dry
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'Twas a yard that hadn't felt childrens' feet running
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For the mother long ago taught her children how to fly
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Within a simple cabin, untouched by industrial hands
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Sat the aged mother in her home
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"You can't escape the picture frames - there's too many," she said,
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"They keep me from bein' all alone"
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Well she spoke, "He was an honest man
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He worked hard to put food on our plates
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Well we had more babies than we had arms
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We struggled all our lives, but the rewards were great
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And when my son came home from the war,
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He rested his head on my breast
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And said,"'Ma, I'm tired of being used and grinded down
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I feel so low, can you make me feel like I'm the best?'"
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Well my best friend truly wed a savage man
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He wore her like a bad tattoo
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For his only love was for a bottle"
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She said, "There's only one thing left for me to do"
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"To be wild once again, to take back my life and run away,
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Set flames to his truck
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He won't ever know what he's been missing; I did every day:
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Joy, freedom, dance and love,
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dance and love"
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[Verse 3]
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These are the stories that this mother spoke to me
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As I brought her garden back to grow
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I was rewarded with a warm meal, tales never to be heard
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Some call it poverty, but they'll never know
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She said, "All I got is my stories and this old guitar,
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My crops have all come and gone away
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I got a head full of recipies enticing to the taste
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And a liking to wake up and greet the day
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"Got a bad back from raising my children,
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From huggin' my husband so tight
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Hell, I never cared much for any government;
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I got my Jesus when I feel the time right"
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Singin' I'm the richest I'll ever be
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I embrace the world I have all around me
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So sing a dying song and slap your knee
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yeah anarchy
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