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Hillbilly Hayduke

from The Mend by Jason Tyler Burton

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Edward Abbey created the character George Hayduke in his classic the Monkey Wrench Gang about a plot to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam. This book helped put Abbey on the FBI watch list as a possible eco-terrorist. Here I explored what an Appalachian version of Hayduke might be thinking.

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Give me a black feather for my cap
Give me a little polish for my shoes
Boy I am appalachian grown
Tonight I walk these hills alone
I'm going to find out
Just who you serve
What I call holy
You call reserves

Give me a river clear and cold
Give me hills not bought and sold
You're pretty liberal
With that word conserve
At least as far as I observe

Give me a moonless night like this
Take a shine to me give me a kiss
Then give me speed
Before I lose my nerve
Before hands with money
They through us a curve
Behind this wheel man
I start to swerve
May we not get what we deserve
May we not get what we deserve

A two ton truck full of fertilizer
Some blasting caps and a spool of wire
Because when i walk these hills alone
I hear appalachia groan

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from The Mend, released February 29, 2012
Edward Abbey created Hayduke.

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Jason Tyler Burton Wyoming

Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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