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MALHEUR BLUES

January 30, 2016 by
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Malheur Blues (inspired by Bad Moon Rising)

 

Out on the Malheur Reservation

Some men are getting set to die

Surrounded by national attention

Who now are asking questions why

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

Pull out your pocket Constitution

Demand that you must all be free

The law has made their determination

They don’t see the way you see

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

Blood stains the cause that you believe in

One voice is now forever still

Your life is saved if you start leaving

Prayers are answered if you will

 

Don’t drive after dark

Just leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

If you’ve got homes and loved ones watching

If you’ve got wives and kids who care

Show them how grown men come together

You’ll live through this if you dare

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

There’s news cameras and youtube

All are looking for a break

Waiting for some dramatic action

Watching the next move that you make

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

If you make your cause a just one

Do it by raising your voice high

Talk to the power that surround you

Show them you’re willing to try

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

This is no Bonnie and Clyde movie

Not Butch and Sundance on the run

The stage is set for the next showdown

Be the man and lay down your guns

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

Remember Sonny Corleone on the turnpike

He dropped in the bullet storm

Death on an Oregon desert highway

Is not the reason you were born

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

You feel like General Lee surrenders

Ending your own Civil War

Just recall how that one ended

Robert E. Lee walked out the door

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

Make the call that it’s all over

It’s the right thing and you should

Before they lay down their law books

Before they say they’re no damn good

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

 

Prison won’t be Hotel California

Where you’ll learn to believe

You can check out anytime you want to

But you can never leave

 

Don’t drive after dark

Leave your truck in park

Don’t make yourself an easy mark

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Comments

  1. glynnis says
    January 31, 2016 at 7:31 am

    Awesome!!

    • David Gillaspie says
      January 31, 2016 at 11:39 am

      Awesome is always the goal of a boomerpdx post. Thanks, Glynnis, for being awesome and joining BoomerPDX.

      Every new member is a blogger treasure.

  2. Mark M Mullins says
    February 2, 2016 at 11:06 am

    Good stuff, clever fellow !!

    • David Gillaspie says
      February 2, 2016 at 12:44 pm

      Did it get your toe tapping, Mark? There’s something about growing up small town that helps me understand certain behavior.

      If you’ve always done things one way, you might not want to change if it worked fine.

      But change comes and the game is to adapt. For instance, I saw a great deal on glasses once, a two for one thing. One check up and three adjustments later I still couldn’t see right.

      So I asked for my money back. Negotiations went bad when they said I could get a refund on the glasses, but not the check up.

      I offered to get a permit so I could protest from the sidewalk with a sign, and I’d only show up when the store was full.

      They changed their minds and mailed a full refund.

      If you protest, know the goals and adjust toward them. If you protest from a position of strength, but that which you protest against is even stronger, where do you go?

      First thing is, “Don’t drive after dark.”