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City

from 1369 Lights by Bryan Thomas

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Zoe spends a week in New York City with Grandma. Baby sister Maya enjoys her first concert with MotherJudge and Odetta in Albany's Washington Park. Daddy ruminates.

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Your baby sister's chilling, MotherJudge is singing
Babylon and Revelation 17
Queen Odetta's Glory Hallelujah is
So serene...

But now you're in the city without me babe.
How you dig the city without me babe?

We could have taken in
a Broadway show as part of your visit
"Passing Strange," I know you'd dig it
It's your Daddy's life story - and yours
Before you've even lived it

But now you're in the city without me babe.
How you in the city without me babe?

Baby sister's digging music here in Washington Park
New York City never sleeps but it sho gets dark
To do the right thang in this summer of Sam
Grab a cap and mic and follow me if you can

Times Square lights are so pretty at night
But I'm telling you the city is dark inside
Cuz in the Seven-0 the Five-0
done "broke a man down"
And a man with a wallet is taking 41 rounds
And the colored orphans and the mob they fled
And the Stonewall Girls are beat upside their heads
And the Triangle Shirt girls fall thud dead
And 3000 souls all fall thud dead
And two tall towers fall thud dead

And on a pile of ashes in a hole downtown
The megaphone man drags Liberty down

I hope you dig the city without me, babe.
I hope you dig the city without me, babe.
I hope you dig the city without me, babe.

I know you'll dig the city without me, babe.

credits

from 1369 Lights, released October 31, 2008
The Buggy Jive is: BT: lead vox, acoustic guitar; JENNIFER: electric guitar; CLEOPATRA JOANZ: bass; LADY MAC: snare, hi-hat, kick drum, tin can.

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Bryan Thomas Albany

Nippertown’s Greg Haymes says Albany soul rocker BRYAN THOMAS's "writes smart, and he writes from the heart, balancing intellect, passion and politics.”

The Times Union named him“Best Male Singer-Songwriter” shortly after he released his acoustic hip-hop debut Radio Plastic Jennifer in 1999. The follow-up soul rock epic Ones and Zeros was Metroland Magazine’s “Album of the Year” in 2002.
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