On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:47:28 -0500 (EST) "Terry A. Smith"
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ps so what, specifically, is the Damnations TX's song "Kansas" about?
There's no lyrics in the record, so I haven't been able to ferret out the
words precisely, but the tune apparently involves the "bloody
Yeah, the Kansas song on Half Mad Moon is one I've listened to over
and over because I had a hard time a) deciphering the lyrics, b)
understanding how they all went together once I'd figured them out
(there are still a couple of lines I don't get, in fact...). And
being in Kansas, I felt
William T. Cocke wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:47:28 -0500 (EST) "Terry A. Smith"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ps so what, specifically, is the Damnations TX's song "Kansas" about?
There's no lyrics in the record, so I haven't been able to ferret out the
words precisely, but the tune
William Cocke writes:
Off the top of my head, Kansas was called "Bloody Kansas"
in the decade or so leading up to the Civil War because it
was a hotbed of unrest and violence due to the fact that it
wasn't certain which way it would enter the Union -- slave
or free. Thus it became sort of a
