{"id":1096,"date":"2010-09-17T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T18:18:08","slug":"of-thee-i-sing-song-for-the-smokers-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioghost.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"“Of Thee I Sing” song for “The Smokers” play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My friend John Herman<\/a> is putting together a festival of steampunk plays<\/a>. He solicited songs to go along with the plays and thus I got to write a song for Leslie Poston’s<\/a> play (adapted by Leslie and E. Christopher Clark<\/a>) “The Smokers”. <\/p>\n

“The Smokers” takes place in a kind of 1984-like world where smoking is banned. I sort of abstracted out of that – using some of the narrative specifics as well as my subjective reaction to it.
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\nQuicktime or Download<\/a><\/p>\n

Of Thee I Sing<\/p>\n

I grew up in a small town
\nOr, be fair, grew down
\nOn the porch at night in the tin moonlight
\nOn a shipwreck drown
\nRising up from my hands and lips
\nA ghostly gown
\nand it\u2019s you I trace in the porch light smoke
\nin ragged rings
\noh it\u2019s you I trace in the porch light smoke
\nOf thee I sing
\nRoll your own now just like a train
\nDown the old tracks in the rain
\nRoll your own now just like a train
\nWhen the tracks disappear start again<\/p>\n

Stood alone in the alleyway
\nIn the upside down
\nWaiting there for the telltale sign
\nOf the red burned brown
\nShadow life of the smokers
\nWear a shame made crown
\nand it\u2019s you I trace in the lamplight smoke
\nin ragged rings
\noh it\u2019s you I trace in the lamplight smoke
\nOf thee I sing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend John Herman is putting together a festival of steampunk plays. He solicited songs to go along with the plays and thus I got to write a song for Leslie Poston’s play (adapted by Leslie and E. Christopher Clark) “The Smokers”. “The Smokers” takes place in a kind of 1984-like world where smoking is …<\/p>\n

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