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Jo Walton has posted her New Orleans Talking Blues:
Of course there’s more. Go look.When levees are flooded and hurricanes roar,
When the waters start seeping up under the door,
You’d expect the escape plans to include the poor
But this isn’t that kind of song.
Might make a good Whisperados song?
I want to try putting that to music.
Someone needs to set this to music and record and distribute this as soon as possible so that radio stations (which often have a good deal more political freedom of expression than television stations seem to) can start playing it.
I'd say this no matter who published it: When Jo's new book Farthing comes out, you want to read it. Trust me, it's relevant.
If anyone who can sing wants to record that, email me.
(I know not being able to sing didn't stop Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, my favourite living singers, but it does stop me.)
Might as well go to Houston
Nawlins a big ol lake
Cant get no water
Folk is startin to bake
Suns comin down so hot
Like my pappys blacksmith forge
Think I see some bad folks
Comin cross Lake George
Might as well go to Houston
That Dome be crashin down
Buses shore aint comin
Cant get out this town
Neighbor drown in his attic
Couldnt get out the house
First he holler so loud
The quiet as a mouse
Might as well go to Houston...
I know I'm way behind in my reading, but I've just read Tooth and Claw which makes me think anything Jo Walton writes has to be wonderful.
Jo, if you sound like either of your heroes, I thank you for your forbearance.
please help me i need help for my homework i hope you dont mind but i would like to ask a question about when the blues first started and what happened with the africans and americans ? please help x laura and nicole x
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