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Chestnut Blight

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Chestnut Blight is possibly the most cheerful song ever written about the near-extinction of the American Chestnut tree. FREAKONS show off the diversity of their skills by singing about both man-made and naturally-occurring ecological catastrophes.

lyrics

Tall white pines go sailing across the ocean
When masts rose like a forest from the deep
Then the skidders came and every little tree was broken
Or left clinging to the hills that were too steep

When the last chestnut tree fell many hearts were broken
Those trees flowered like a snowstorm in july
They brought along fat hogs and folding money
Then one by one they rotted out and died

Now the water in the well’s not clean to drink
It burns like acid and it’s blacker than a lawyer’s ink
Jesus walked on water in the bible
But now the creek’s so filled with slag even i won’t sink

Down in the mines many lives have been taken
Down in the mines many lives have been lost
Money comes and goes down where quicksilver flows
And the miners left behind to pay the cost

When the last hunk of coal has been mined
We’ll be judged by the deeds we’ve done not the deeds we’ve signed
When there is nothing in these hills left to steal
We can buy it all back from the bank at a real good deal

Now the water in the well’s not clean to drink
It burns like acid and it’s blacker than a lawyer’s ink
Jesus walked on water in the bible
But now the creek’s so filled with slag even i won’t sink

When the last vein is all played out and gone
One last train is gonna come and haul away this song

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from Freakons, released March 25, 2022

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Freakwater and the Mekons have joined forces to sing songs about coal mining. FREAKONS, the new eponymously-titled album on Fluff & Gravy Records, is the first fruit of this visionary musical union. ... more

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