Preguntas por Puerto Montt

Very well, I will ask for you ...
for you who merely stayed
and who died without knowing ...

Song of the Barge-Haulers on the Volga

Train from Washington

during reconstruction time they were folks who have been promised forty acres and a mule
and they were told a man with their legal papers could be expected on a train from washington
they were folks who waited for him and there are folks still waiting for him.
but you can't depend on the train from washington, it's one hundred years overdue

you can depend on the stars and planets yeah
they'll always tell you the truth
you can depend on the 15th of april yeah
somehow it always gets through
you can depend on the daily paper's calls
they surely bring you the blues
but don't depend on the train from washington
it's one hundred years overdue

i see people
dragging on their own
i see them standing
anxious near the tracks
i see people
a long long way from home
wondering how they'll ever get back

you can depend on the politicians yeah
always got a point of view
they are contemporary court magicians yeah
sleight of mouth will dazzle you
you can depend on the repositions from them
changes that you've got to go through
but don't depend on the train from washington
it's one hundred years overdue ...

I was only nineteen

Shule aroon

Union burying ground

Soldier blue

... soldier blue: can't you see that there's another way to love her ...

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier

... I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier
I brought him up to be my pride and joy
Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder
to shoot some other mother's darling boy?
Let nation's arbitrate their future trouble
It's time to lay the sword and gun away
There'd be no war today
if mothers all would say
'I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier!' ...

Coal tattoo

... o i got no house lord
i got no job
just got a worried soul
and a blue tattoo on the side of my head
left by the number nine coal ...

You'll never leave Harlan alive

... but the times they got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
and ole granddad knew what he'd do to survive
he went and dug for harlan coal
sent the money back to granma
but he never left harlan alive ...