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Pullman Town

from sickvillAIn by John Siqveland

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lyrics

We never left old Pullman Town.
Rent goes up as the wage comes down.
Same man sells our bread as sets our pay.
No sir, we never left ol’ Pullman Town.
The man is gone, but the ghost’s still ’round –
rattling a long, crooked chain.

Twelve thousand sober, neat and clean.
Productive in our dignity.
Working man nothing like a slave.
Oh, but Pullman he first earned his fame,
his name upon the train that raced
The Great Emancipator to his grave.

We never left old Pullman Town.
Rent goes up as the wage comes down.
Same man sells our bread as sets our pay.
No sir, we never left ol’ Pullman Town.
The man is gone, but the ghost’s still ’round –
rattling a long, crooked chain.

The Pullman church was called Greenstone –
sound as the return on a Pullman loan.
Blessed with water from the Pullman well.
Brought up in the Pullman schools.
Worked our jobs with Pullman tools.
And when we die, we’ll burn in a Pullman Hell.

Waiting as his death came down
to rip that corpse right
from the ground.
This could be the last thing
he learned.
Had family bury his coffin deep
in railroad ties and concrete
and we thought that
sumbitch
would never return.

We never left old Pullman Town.
Rent goes up as the wage comes down.
Same man sells our bread as sets our pay.
No we never left ol’ Pullman Town.
The man is gone, but the ghost’s still ’round –
rattling a long, crooked chain.

We’re still living in that big old Pullman Town today.

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from sickvillAIn, released April 21, 2024
John Siqveland - Lyrics, original song creation, pointing and clicking
Udio.com - Everything else

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Americana-on-Nylon.

Saint Paul, MN

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