Posse

from Great Leader by DATSON

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lyrics

And they rode down to Saddam County
'long the banks of the U FREIGHT EASE.
They were bringing truth and justice
or some thing quite close to these.

With freedom on their banner
and justice in their sword
a fair amount of havoc wrecked
before all old debts were scored.

And their seed fell on hard & stony,
the news confused or so they say.
Those hybrid hopes had fallen over
and in the dust down there did lay.

Like the cavalry from Calvary
black &white and cross
with a capital idea that
burning bush made Jesus boss.

Radios are active
but faith abandoned spent
where is all the money gone
and loving that was went.

Like the cavalry from Calvary
black &white & cross
with a capital idea
cavalry from Calvary
black &white & cross cross cross

And they rode down to Saddam County
'long the banks of the U FREIGHT EASE
they were bringing truth and justice
or some thing quite close to these.

Gently lay your withered hopes
beside the meadow
where the weeping live
And memory stalled
beside the creek there
your heart could go
no further on.

credits

from Great Leader, released July 8, 2020
Written, performed and Produced - Geoffrey Datson

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DATSON Australia

GEOFFREY DATSON is a sound artist, combining spoken word, electronica and instrumentation in his recordings. Many poets recite their work to music, but few are also composers. Datson's work is a synthesis of forms of sonic expression in which the voice and the sound field are interdependent. ... more