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Chickamauga Creek
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The oozing steam of blood and fire
Fill with grimness every fall of Chickamauga
The pounding hooves of a thousand chargers
Dully rumble
Like a distant growl
As if the battle had never been stopped
For fifty thousands of those drafted suckers
Thrashing their kinsmen in a fratricide war
On the wooded banks of an Indian legend
Dressed in blue or dressed in grey
The poor devils have on both sides
Hand in hand manured the soil of Georgia
And shed their lives in Chickamauga Creek
At the feet of the mountains
Flows the River of Blood
A paleface blood
Meeting an Indian word
When the sky clouds over
The end of summer
Indian hymns and battle songs
Rise side by side from the River of Blood.
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After the deafening fever of yesterday night
A few hours to dry the toxic sweat
From my wrinkled forehead
And off I go
In my pink slippers
Eggs and bugs and kitchen roll
To sustain my baggy flesh
To sustain my soaky bones
My hells-angels jacket neatly packed
In my wardrobe
I can now resume
To my daily chores
Eggs and bugs and kitchen roll
Much has still to be said
For Sunday breakfast in bed
This embryonic chick awaits a lethal fate
As my shaky hands grab
The deadly pan
The rotten butter knits
A tight and juicy web
Eggs and bugs and kitchen roll
An instant crash
Is all it takes
To crack the shell
But amidst the haze of noon
The creepies crawl
And gather for the feast
The frothy mist of Memories
Drowns my liver in dismay
Eggs and bugs and kitchen roll
A desperate attempt to reach the craphole
Bounces my face in the burning yoke
As my mouth rejects
My brewed nostalgia
Eggs and bugs and kitchen roll
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Guilty
03:55
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I was brought for trial
Before the Doomsday Court
With no counsel for my Defense
Naked as I was born
Despite my good conduct
Throughout this peaceful life
The Court had a black look
And a reproachful tone
You are in charge with cowardice
For you dismissed your inner quests
To leave your fate be just like dough
Into the claws of society
Guilty of cowardice
The verdict slashed a heavy silence
Sentenced to regrets
With no alternate hope for my repent.
You spoiled the gifts you were blessed with
For a mundane job and a humdrum life
Gave up your hands of alchemist
For small pebbles of security
You are in charge with treachery
For under cover of common sense
You sacrificed the youthful dreams
To keep quietly to the straight and narrow
Guilty of treachery
The verdict slashed a heavy silence
Sentenced to regrets
With no alternate hope for my repent.
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On the Hill
04:56
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On the hill of my village
The Sunday chime floats discreetly
Leaving the fowls to their cackling
And the gardeners to their plot
While at the foot of the red brick steeple
The young people fill the square
Our old neighbours sit on their doorsteps
Looking around for a bit of a chat
And when the Monday breaks
The market place releases its fragrance
Fish, flowers and vegetables
Are spreading through the narrow streets
The alleys of cobbled stones
Are ringing with the footsteps
Of dozens of shopping baskets
That are heading for the market.
On the hill of my village
Where the kids play hooky
Cows are chewing the cud
And kids squelching through the mud.
Far beyond the business centre
Nestles my peaceful village
Surrounded by gentle slopes
Gently grazed by idle chompers
Where the old folks still believe
That their bricks will last forever
And shelter the same young rascals
Brightening up this haven of peace.
And when September dawns
The peaceful hamlet looks dapper
Overjoyed by the cattle fair
It soon will put up in its walls
The troop of giants
Dance down the hill
On the blaring music of the local brass band
Chips, grill, mussels and black pudding
Cover the Sunday stroller in grease.
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Kermess Belgium
Kermess a sévi de 1994 à 2000 un peu partout en Belgique mais aussi en France et en
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Près de 200 concerts boostés à l'adrénaline punk-folk multilingue du groupe où la bonne humeur générale était au rendez-vous. Des ballons et des rouleaux de PQ en guise de guirlandes... Ils ont paratgé la scène de groupes tels que UK Subs, Pigalle, PPz 30, Marcel et son Orchestre, Barking Dogs, etc
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