Underground

from Trace of a Clue (2013) by Bill Burke

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Here's a Latin dirge with an accordion solo in the middle. Enjoy!

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Have you heard the one bout Ramone the Thatcher
Lived his many years near the village square
Never failed a home he would put his work to
Never was a soul he did treat unfair

Villagers would gather to praise their sun god
He was never part with their fevered crowd
But how they made the point then upon his funeral
To deck him out in garb to make a sun god proud

Kindly, he'd say his ways were different
Those who remembered could not be found
Well before the graves men picked up their shovels
Ramone the Thatcher was underground

Have you heard the one 'bout Brutus the Scriber
Hardly was a giant yet he stood quite tall
Decency and kindness were his ambitions
Bravely served his country when his country called

For him, though, their flag's a scoundrel's hideout
Never hung the banner of the empire's crest
What the people saw at his formal send off
Colors of the nation blazoned on his chest

Mere flights of fancy that must be smoothed out
Powers that be pulled an end-around
Well before the graves men picked up their shovels
Brutus the Scriber was underground

Kindly, he'd say his ways were different
Those who remembered could not be found
Well before the graves men picked up their shovels
Ramone the Thatcher was underground

His mere flights of fancy that must be smoothed out
Powers that be pulled their end-around
Well before the graves men picked up those shovels
Brutus the Scriber was underground

Was underground
Was underground

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from Trace of a Clue (2013), track released May 27, 2013

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