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by Todd Burge

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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? 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, 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 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 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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Please help West Virginia Flood Victims here www.unitedwaycwv.org Thank you 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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released June 26, 2015

Todd Burge - vocals and instruments.

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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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