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Same Old West Virginia Joke

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

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10/24/17 For days now, the old Ames plant, which most currently was a large storage facility in Parkersburg, WV, (my home town) owned by IEI Plastics has been burning, filling the Mid-Ohio Valley with toxic fumes. Read more here
wvpublic.org/post/parkersburg-industrial-fire-what-we-know-and-dont-know#stream/0

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

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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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