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55 Strong
by Todd Burge March 1 2018
From Brooke down to Mercer
In Morgan, Clay and Wood
From Mingo to Braxton
We’ve been marching as we should
From Hancock to Logan
No one’s throwing in the towel
From Marion to Marshall
No, we’re not backing down!
We won’t be wronged
We won’t be wronged
It’s been too long
55 Strong
We won’t be wronged
We won’t be wronged
It’s been too long
55 Strong
(C)2018 Bunj Jam BMI
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Same Old West Virginia Joke 10-23-2017
Clouds come
Clouds go
What do we know?
Who knows?
What do we know?
Buildings burn
For days on end
What’s in our air?
When does it end?
The answer’s in
The dirty wind
Our whole town looks up
At that mystery smoke
And choke on yet another
West Virginia joke
That same old
West Virginia joke
Down and out
Poor and hungry
Don’t want to beg
For food or money
I used to spend
But now I’m spent
Cast my vote
On milk and honey
As I wait for a taste
My kids go hungry
I use to spend
But now I’m spent
Our whole town looks up
At that mystery smoke
And choke on yet another
West Virginia joke
That same old
West Virginia joke
Don’t want to stay
But I can’t leave
Got to eat
Want to breathe
Clean
Breathe in the clean
Air of
My grandad’s day
A fair trade
With the trees and leaves
Clean
Breathe in the clean
Our whole town looks up
At that mystery smoke
And choke on yet another
West Virginia joke
That same old
West Virginia joke
West Virginia joke
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Are They Not Us?
02:24
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Are They Not Us?
By Todd Burge Aug 10 2017
Are they not us?
Are we not them?
Who will you exclude?
Are they not us?
Are we not them?
And who might choose you?
The magic of every baby’s breath
Speaks through me and you
Tell me, what would your savior do
If he were to advise you?
What would he do?
Are they not us?
Are we not them?
By T. Burge ©2017 Bunj Jam Bmi
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We Shall Overcome
03:03
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We shall overcome,
We shall overcome,
We shall overcome, some day.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
We'll walk hand in hand,
We'll walk hand in hand,
We'll walk hand in hand, some day.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
We shall live in peace,
We shall live in peace,
We shall live in peace, some day.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
We are not afraid,
We are not afraid,
We are not afraid, TODAY
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
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Inauguration Day 2017 (We’re Not Leaving Town)
by Todd Burge Jan 19, 1017
Pray if you pray
Or maybe meditate
On the state of a nation starting over
Over the hill
Or the hump, if you will
Or maybe we’re just climbing
Up up up
Our class is half full
And our hearts are broken
Yet hope is pumping out
So, we’re not leaving town
We’re not leaving town
So what can we do?
Are you feeling helpless too?
But just help those who
Might need more than you and I do?
Lift up a child
Pick up the down and out
Shoot a sunny ray in the way
Of some nasty cloud
Our class is half full
And our hearts are broken
Yet hope is pumping out
So, we’re not leaving town
We’re not leaving town
So, pray if you pray
Or maybe meditate
On the state of a nation starting over
By Todd Burge
©2017 Bunj Jam BMI
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The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bob Dylan
Come gather around people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
And if your breath to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changing
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no telling who that it's naming
For the loser now will be later to win
Cause the times they are a-changing
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's the battle outside raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
Cause the times they are a-changing
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slowest now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
Cause the times they are a-changing
Songwriters: Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin' lyrics
© Bob Dylan Music Co.
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I've got nothing
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Find over a hundred songs at www.toddburge.com
Who will win? What’s it cost?
(The Nail’s In The Coffin) 10-11-16
By Todd Burge
I had to take a fall
As I was faking just how tall
I was, in a tale of spin
Too dizzy to sustain a win
Now I’m at a loss
As to who’s the boss
Who will win?
What’s it cost?
I know you heard me say
We’d make it great again
But now I know you can’t go back
To what we’re already in
Now I’m at a loss
As to who’s the boss
Who will win?
What’s it cost?
The story stuck on me so long
It left a stink
I tried and tried to blame my shame
And change the way you think
Now I’m at a loss
As to who’s the boss
Who will win?
What’s it cost?
So hand me that basket
And I’ll ride it straight to Hell
I won’t pass go
Nor will I ring that Liberty Bell
Now I’m at a loss
As to who’s the boss
Who will win?
What’s it cost?
By Todd Burge
©2016 Bunj Jam BMI
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Big Bang Dreams of DC
The Ballad of Don Blankenship
by Todd Burge April 23 2018
There once was a big bang
And many men died
They pinned it on me
I pinned it on…
Black dust from a White House
Put me in the big house
And now that I’m out
I’ve spun it around
And I’m DC bound
Did you hear the big bang?
And those widows weep?
Crying to sleep
Just leave them to me
Leave them to me
As I’ve done time for them
I paid a price
One year of my life
My sacrifice
Like Nelson Mandela
I was an imprisoned fella
Unjustly accused, un-rightly abused
While I watched out for you
Did you see the big bang?
And its rockets’ red glare?
As it spelled out my name
Like a good Mountaineer
Like a good Mountaineer
While I was locked up
I learned to play chess
From the nicest drug dealers
Of high intelligence
Now I’ll be your pusher
If you’ll be my pawn
An un-promoted peasant
Who never moves on
Did you see the big bang?
And its rockets’ red glare?
As it spelled out my name
Like a good Mountaineer
Up high in the air
But there’s way too much glare
But if you look away
I appear to be
A good Mountaineer
Now I do not need money
As I took it from you
As you worked for me
Long before
That big
Bang
Boom
©2018 Bunj Jam BMI
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Comb Over A Big Bunch of Lies
3-2-2016
Some want to cry out
Some want to leave
Some want to punch the face of their enemy
Just for what they believe
Some will take it lying down
Some will never let it die
The winds of change
Have blown a comb over
A big bunch of lies
We all remember
Like it was yesterday
All of the hatred
That ruled from state to state
But reason prevailed
On all that did divide
And now the winds of change
Have blown a comb over
A big bunch of lies
So, what should we do?
If not you, then who?
Stand up and speak out
Just share your mood
Think of the children
And who they look up to
Don’t sit in silence
With that anger in your eyes
As the winds of change
Blow this comb over
A big bunch of lies
The winds of change
Have blown a comb over
A big bunch of lies
By Todd Burge
©2016 Bunj Jam BMI
www.toddburge.com
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Love Conquers All (50 States) by Todd Burge
6/26/2015
No longer may this liberty be denied to them
Love conquers all, conquers all
Who loves who, who cares?
As she loves her and he loves him
Love conquers all, conquers all
From Hawaii to Alaska
And the lower 48
Love conquers all
Love conquers all
Love conquers all 50 states
We’re all something greater now than we once were
Love conquers all, conquers all
Who loves who, who cares?
As he loves him and she loves her
Love conquers all, conquers all
From Hawaii to Alaska
And the lower 48
Love conquers all
Love conquers all
Love conquers all 50 states
From Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion 6/26/15
"The Court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry. No longer may this liberty be denied to them."
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."
"The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity. The petitioners in these cases seek to find that liberty by marrying someone of the same sex and having their marriages deemed lawful on the same terms and conditions as marriages between persons of the opposite sex."
"Far from seeking to devalue marriage, the petitioners seek it for themselves because of their respect—and need—for its privileges and responsibilities. And their immutable nature dictates that same-sex marriage is their only real path to this profound commitment."
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This Is Ours To Fix
03:18
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This is Ours to Fix
7/8/2016 by Todd Burge
How could our kids be seeing this?
All the things we should have missed
The mess that our
Great grandparents made
Is still alive and
Well,
It’s full of hate
There’s a hatred in our streets
There’s a hatred in our homes
If there’s a hatred in our hearts
They need to be broken
Before we know how to move on
Move on
Move on
Now, this is ours to fix
All the things our parents missed
And at the end of innocence
There must be some common sense
As, how could our kids be seeing this?
And at the end of innocence
There must be some common sense
Now, this is ours to fix
At the end of innocence
There must be some common sense
Now, this is ours to fix
Move on
Move on
Move on
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Hand Size Doesn't Matter
01:32
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Hand Size Doesn’t Matter 3/4/2016
Written the morning after the Republican presidential debate.
The size of an individual’s hands doesn’t matter does it? We need to put our hands together.
Hear the hot wind blow
As the Tuesdays get super
It’s just so much steam
Keeping us in this stuper
The world is weighty
And it won’t get a lift
From some big money man
No matter the size of his hands
Big hands and small
We’ll need them all
To pick up the pieces
From our nasty nasty nasty nasty fall
So, look alive
High five
Lend your hand
As this land is your land
Speak up, say your piece
Don’t sit still, use your will
As this land is our land
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Peace In Our West Virginia Valley
6/28/2016 by Todd Burge
I want to go back
Just one more time
If we only could
Would there be ….
Peace in the Valley
Do I see?
It happened so fast
We never knew what hit us
It took everything we had
And all that some might ever get
Chorus
Dad’s too proud to ask
And Mom has long since gone
And all that we have
I’m singin’ in this song
Chorus
A West Virginia morning
Is on the rise
With a dryness in our eyes
From the golden summer sun
Chorus
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Another Song in the Key of C – May.28.2010
by Todd Burge - (C)2010-BMI
I sing another song in the key of C
Hope it does for you what it did for me
And what it does for us we might not agree
But still I must sing my song in the key of C
Can’t you stop this dirty leak
It’s making our whole planet weak
Big Brother’s eyes have ceased to peep
As we stare at all this Texas tea
Oil on a bird, oil on a fish
Oil in my heart makes a heart stopping dish
I’ll make my list full of wishing
That someday I’ll see some clean deep sea fishing
Chorus
Don’t ask me about don’t ask don’t tell
And we won’t have to hear each other yell
But I’d send my love to hell and back
If we could just love one another without the flack
Cut some slack, cut some slack
She loves she, she loves her back
He loves him, he loves him back
Tell me, while they fight our wars
What could be wrong with that?
Chorus
The roses are red and the violets are back
Spring is here and that’s a fact
The soil is rich with our old ideas
So I’ll sew some love and grow a few good kids
Birds and bees, bees and birds
Love is the best sound you’ve ever heard
Write it down and notarize it
So it is written, let’s galvanize it!
Chorus
Find more music by Todd Burge including his recordings with Tim O'Brien, Dirk Powell, The Mountain Stage Band etc. here
http://www.toddburge.com
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Todd Burge Parkersburg
If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more
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