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Big Bang Dreams of DC (Ballad of Don Blankenship)

from Today's Headlines (Topical Songs) by Todd Burge

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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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from Today's Headlines (Topical Songs), released June 26, 2015

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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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