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recorded live at the Seattle Folklife Festival in 1982. This was written about the eruption of Mt St Helens

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Fire
Fire upon the mountain
Ash upon the floor
Some hippie on the corner screamin’
More, More!
I seen the cloud a coming
Lit out on a run.
But I wouldn’t give a nickel
For what the mountain done.

Beating on the window
Banging on the phone
I even thought of prayin’
Cause I couldn’t hear the tone.
I thought of Harry Truman
He was sittin’ all alone
Bet he wouldn’t give a nickel for what the mountain done.

Pictures in the paper
Paintings on the wall
Forty thousand song writers
Trying to write it all
Oh, baggies full of ashes
You can’t keep them all
Nothing’s worth a nickel when the ashes fall.

Talk about your mushrooms
And how they get you high
You should have seen the mushroom
In the Southern sky
I had some T-shirts printed
I sold them all
I even made a nickel
I got my ashes hauled.
© John W. McClure, 1981

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released June 1, 2009
J.W. McClure

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J.W. McClure Seattle, Washington

J.W. McClure lives in Stanwood, Washington. This is a career restarted for me. In the 1970’s I was often an opening act at the Washington D.C. clubs, The Cellar Door and The Childe Harold for Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush and many well known bands. In the 1980’s I returned to Washington to do folk music, satire and stand-up comedy before getting swamped by family and other work. ... more

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