The Price Of Progress-Jason Ringenberg

[ti:Price Of Progress] [ar:Jason Ringenberg] [al:The Appalachians] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Price Of Progress - Jason Ringenberg [00:00.48]One two [00:02.07]One two three four [00:03.98] [00:19.42]Some people have the nerve [00:22.92]To say you get what you deserve [00:26.79]I'm the forth generation [00:29.07]Now to put my back to this mule and plow [00:34.41]We have always found a way [00:37.96]To stand tall or kneel and pray [00:44.07] [00:49.53]In the spring of 38 a man came from the TVA [00:56.50]You said you have to leave from here [01:00.24]We're gonna build a dam next year [01:03.80] [01:04.31]Your old farm and valley too [01:07.83]Will be a lake so deep and blue [01:14.09] [01:26.70]The dam was finished up last week [01:30.18]The water makes it silent creep [01:34.15]Yesterday my grand dads grave [01:37.73]Was covered up like pharos slave [01:41.47]The porch steps by evening's end [01:45.21]Forever we'll be flooded in [01:50.36] [02:30.29]They think that I'm a crazy fool [02:33.75]To sit and wait so calm and cool [02:37.49]And watch the water slowly rise [02:41.33]Through these tired and world worn eyes [02:44.95]But they don't know that late tonight [02:48.29] [02:55.58]I'm gonna plug that dam with dynamite