Moonlit Missive #69, by In Gowan Ring

Moonlit Missive #69

by In Gowan Ring

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	1.	The Ballad of the General and Ansel Young 07:59	lyrics
	If you think you’ll chance a trip, go all out to the Hilt There’s a story you might hear around those yellow hills Up north around the bend, just before the pass Where there’s fragrance of pine and juniper and all that fancy grass Fragrance of pine and juniper and all that fancy grass There’s them that dream of gold and moonshine and sly ways to make a buck They’re still poaching water up the creek when it’s dry as fuck Now that story as I was telling you about the General and Ansel Young Up from San Luis Obispo Bay, as partners they’d come Under what regiment or infantry he served, nobody could say But you can bet those five gold stars the General was used to havin’ his way They’d come up north prospecting where the laws were lax and cheap Procuring land quite reasonably with titles for the deed Securing land quite reasonably with titles for the deed But in these yellow hills of Hilt it’s the water that you need It’s the water gives life and opportunity And gives some men exceptionable greed As for Ansel and the General, they fell out over water rights A water feud ain’t nothin’ new, some people they’re just gonna fight At County Hall the General laid his claim with cronies in the bar But lines are only gonna bend so far in a court of law And just next month was Ansel’s body found, Orange jumpsuit, reflective bands ‘Neath the General’s old clunker, blown pipe bomb in his hand Beneath the General’s worthless junker, a blown pipe bomb in his hand Sure there were questions, an inquiry; the fuzz came asking ‘round But that case was never settled, no conclusion ever found Peculiar folk up in the hills, strange ways to settle a score Now it wasn’t me you heard it from, but it had been done before It wasn’t me you heard it from: it had been done before So if you think you’ll chance a trip, go on up to the Hilt There’s a story you might hear around those yellow hills Up north around the bend, just before the pass There’s fragrance of pine and juniper And all that fancy grass Fragrance of pine and juniper and all that fancy grass

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This story was related to me by two anonymous Hilt, California residents who were living here during the time of these events. To my memory this is the first proper Topical Ballad that I’ve made. Probably also the first song of mine which uses a certain explicative long considered impolite.

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released July 27, 2021

Composition & photographs by B’ee; Instruments: guitar, voice & electric wah
Recorded July 2021 in the nascent Pent Shack

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