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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
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
About David Gillaspie
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Good stuff, clever fellow !!
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.”