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("..if
you don't allow your experience to inform your travel, you bring nothing to
it--you're just a passive person" - R.W. 'Johnny' Apple, Jim Lehrer's
'News Hour', PBS 3/22/2005)
i get tired, Johnny, creep to bed
and drumming
'he had nowhere to rest his
head..'
he plunks at night, some
psalmist's melody
and it ain't my country, 'tis of
thee
at his discretion,
now,
awake but
young,
young to creep among
the creeps he creeps
among
by night, he drums up psalms and
melodies,
by day he teaches
drummers how to really be..
at school, Johnny, my music
teacher drives a new blue Ford,
gives all credit to the school board. her music is a music career, and
her loyalty,
it's to her country, her
country's liberty
but it ain't my country, 'tis of
thee
it ain't my country, 'tis of thee i sing
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