The Spider Song (cover by gAlaRamA and Carolyn S)

First Published on Dec 14, 2012
This is a re-make, with a cartoon drawn by Yuki Shafer (the Banker) added!
This song was written by Glen Lawson. He has disappeared. If anyone knows him, please tell him this song of his has survived. We think he was born in about 1953.

The Spider Song
by Glen Lawson (born 1953?)

I come from the mountains, that rolling land
I once was happy but now I'm sad
That mining company took away my home
bought up my land and now it's gone

There's no more sparrow, there's no more trees
I'll go to the city, there'll be a job for me
I'll cut my roots, and I'll work in the mill
While that mining company destroys my hill

Eight hundred dollars would have saved my land
But that banker, he was a mining man
There's no more time was all he had to say
Now I've got to leave here lord, in six more days

Chorus:
I told the spider to move her web,
I told the sparrow to move her nest
Far over the mountains to where the land is green
Where there ain't no banker and no mining machine

(Mountaintop removal for coal in West Virginia and Ohio.)

Тэги:

#West_Virginia #Coal_Mining #Strip_Mining #Mining_(Industry) #Mountain_Removal #Country_(Musical_Genre) #Bluegrass_(Musical_Genre)

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