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Daisy Cutter Blues

from Serious Folking Music by Paul Kotheimer

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Well, grandpa was at Midway back in Fifty-four. He flew in Operation Ivy, playing nuclear war, but he got the blues. Those radium and cobalt blues. If you was in his shoes, you'd know those fighting sailor's red-white-and-blues.

And Uncle Dale was stationed south of Phnom Penh. They tramped him through the jungle, then they shipped him home again, but he got the blues. Those agent orange flashback blues. It's not something you'd choose, those buddies-in-a-body-bag blues.

And Momma went to Panama, and Dad was in Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm. His courage there was great, but he got the blues. Those top secret biotoxin blues. If you was in his shoes, you'd know those fighting soldier's red-white-and-blues.

(Bill Clinton on the saxophone, ladies and gentlemen. Aw yeah. That man played it so smooth, you can barely remember where the bombs were falling...)

Now, me, I spent my childhood in a video game. At Air Force pilot flying school, they said it'd be just the same, but now I got the blues. Those old civilian casualties blues. I got the Kandahar-Jalalabad, Daisy-Cutting, Red-White-and-Blues.

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from Serious Folking Music, released October 25, 2002

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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois

For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC! ... more

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