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A Whole Lot of Trouble

from Down to Our Last Dollar (EP) by Bryan Kirschner

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Inspired by a photo I believe to be from the Farm Security Administration, but for which I've lost the record locator information

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Tell me now brother, “How’d it go down–
Your homesteading in a western town?”

“Oh brother, it ain’t gone right
Dust clouds boiled up as black as night

And a man can’t reap if a man can’t sow
Oh how I wish we never did go

See I lost my tractor and I lost my cow
But I don’t give a damn about them now

Lost a whole lotta money but I don’t care
‘Cause I left our little baby there

There’s a whole lotta trouble Oklahoma way
And dust piling up on a little girl’s grave”

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from Down to Our Last Dollar (EP), released September 5, 2016

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Bryan Kirschner Seattle, Washington

I write songs that tell stories about love and fear, resignation and resurgence, in the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen.

Hard Times Hundred & One--of which this is a part--is my project to create 101 songs inspired by photos from the Great Depression.
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