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MY CROOKED TRUMPET
My dear anchorites of sorrow, my anchorites of grief / I offer yet another song to tear apart with your teeth / I’ll lay it on your altar, I’ll nail it to your door / Are you there, are you listening, are you keeping score? / I raise my Crooked Trumpet as Civilization burns / And I’ll gather all the ashes & seal them in this urn / I raise my Crooked Trumpet to the tortured & the blest / Like some most demented hero – I bow & strike my chest / O they found me in the mansions of those Andalusian kings / Bound up in fear & passions & other useless things / And there before the High Court, I told them stories of your Grace, your Beauty & your Wonder / There was not a dry eye left in the place! / I laid down with Sophia Loren, and Brigitte Bardot too / Check your calendars, my friends, I might have even laid down with you / I appreciate the affection, present in that boogaloo / But somehow I’m still in that Coliseum tonight, blowin’ this horn ‘til I’m blue! / Abandon your false credentials, my friends, abandon your synthetic hope / Don’t try to wash that stain from your hands, you’ll never find that much soap / Don’t blame some distant “other” for the blood upon this ground / Don’t kid yourself, brother – There’s enough blood to go around… / I do not presume to teach or instruct here, Nor to light your way with some kind of torch / What I offer, I offer from worker to worker – a gift between the burned & the scorched…

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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