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Not terribly proud of this one, but here it is.  I think the formatting is a bit screwy, so the changes don’t actually go where they appear to.
Never Trust A Bureaucrat
E                A
Negotiations broke down over benefits and pay.
B7                 E
We put it to a vote and went out the sixth [...]

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I don’t know why I feel like telling this story now, but I do; it’s the story of a moment–an instant–in my life that I look back on with intense pleasure.
It was the winter of 1990, and I had left the Party some years before, but still considered myself a sympathizer.  In International Falls, there [...]

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My childhood friend Steve Rosen, who plays viola for the Cincinnati Orchestra, has just released this.  Check it out.

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Inspired by a discussion on Making Light
As an agent phones
On a blue and white computer screen
A book completes its final scene
In the ghetto
And it’s author moans
Cause if there’s one thing he knows for sure
It’ll never win the Pulitzer
In the ghetto.
Poeple do I have to plead?
He wrote it to be fun to read
And there’s even [...]

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(If the tune isn’t obvious, you are lucky, and I won’t ruin your life by directing you to the original)
It’s after midnight on Saturday
The tourney’s been running since nine.
The rock to my left is my only hope
Since he’s never defended his blinds.
So the action folds all the way round to me
I make the only move [...]

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The Kimberly Trip became the latest band to travel to another world and perform at Lufton Runner, one of Port Outreach’s most popular music venues. You can listen to their music and see photos from the concert on the Luf’s website.
If you are a musician or know a band which should appear at Lufton Runner, [...]

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The world that we call Mother
One morning at a requirements meet as the coffee break was ending
I got an IM from my buddy Jim and he said I’m not attending.
I’m tired of jobs that are pointless and dull where one’s just like another.
I’m headed for the tangle called Bermuda Triangle toward the world that we [...]

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I remember College Station
In the big Hurricane
We knew that when it reached us
We might get some rain
Wasn’t that a sorry day (a sorry day)
A sorry day (a sorry day)
A sorry day great God that morning
When the Aggie’s all got wet.
The gas, it all was rationed
The people screamed in fear
Refugees from Houston
Had bought up all the [...]

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We’re looking for some bands to help us engage in some viral marketing .  Are you in a band?  Do you have a friend who is in one?  Post a link to your music here, or else send it to Kit at dreamcafe dot com, and we’ll give it a listen.  Ideally this should involve [...]

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Google fails to turn up the chord progression for “Spoon River” by Michael Smith.  Does anyone reading this know it?

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