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  • new filk: God Help America

    From Mark Mandel@mark.a.mandel@gmail.com to rec.music.filk on Thu Aug 11 19:01:01 2022
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.filk

    God Help America
    Ttto God Bless America
    Words copr. 2022 by Mark Mandel

    God help America,
    Land where I live,
    Where the pow'rful and wealthy
    Always take for themselves, never give.

    From the mountains to the prairies
    To the oceans white with foam,
    God help America,
    The land they own.
    God help America,
    The land they own.

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    Yes, it's cynical and depressed and exaggerated. But it's the way I'm feeling a lot of the time these days.

    Mark Mandel
    "The Filker with No Nickname"
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  • From Arthur T.@arthur@munged.invalid to rec.music.filk on Fri Aug 12 16:14:58 2022
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.filk

    In
    Message-ID:<cddb89c6-9747-4111-ad65-f1338e497d93n@googlegroups.com>,
    Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel@gmail.com> wrote:

    Yes, it's cynical and depressed and exaggerated. But it's the way I'm feeling a lot of the time these days.

    "But when you take the blues and make a song
    you sing them out again"

    Filkers gotta filk, and catharsis is often good.
    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com
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