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Live 127 Southbound

by Chit Holdems

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Intro 02:37
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Chit talking: So these uh raccoons come up on the back porch and uh they love, they love the flour If you leave a sack of flour out there they'll come and get it and it's really cute it's worth it just leave a sack of flour out for your neighborhood wildlife they'll thank ya and you'll appreciate the result Hey so uh Chit Holdems band thinkin about playin Hey everybody folks upstairs comin on down for the country music show Hi we're Chit Holdems and we come from the swamp way up north there's lotsa trees and uh... that's why we're so fuckin free I guess and uh I wonder... we're what you might call a wierd niche political cowboy band uh, anarchist antifascist to be specific Now we're gonna start with a song that a lot of our fans really like and uh we're gonna start with that song right after we stop playin this right now and it goes like this
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Anarchy Train 03:05
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Punchin Em 02:22
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Votin Again 04:09
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Cross The State 03:43
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well you think you wanna do a little planet savin you wanna try and stop the climate change well it seems real simple when we first get started our priorities we rearrange but then we spend some time workin and it becomes clear it's always been time to escalate and by the time you find yourself locked down to a crane you meet the beast we call the state and when you cross the state you cross the cops you cross the banks feds the irs and they'll put you in the stocks but solidarity cos we got your back and someday the state will go away and it's never comin back well you think you wanna do some social justice work in a big ol city town everything from bad jobs to poisoned water been keepin the poor folk down well you're workin helpin people live in their own neighborhoods you're fightin to degentrificate and then you cross the wrong developer and then you meet the beast we call the state [chorus] well you think you wanna build us up a better world you wanna live out a life in peace i support that kind of work yeah i think that's the way to be but when we build ourselves somethin where we got what we need and we're livin life peaceful and great because we have escaped systems of domination we will be confronted by the state [chorus]
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Secret Weapon 04:50
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the state will worm it's way inside the mind it has since times immemorable and governments recuperate the people's art to maintain their control so down on music row ya got a right wing stranglehold they got the glitz the glamour the distribution to bear the empires load but we've got our secret weapon it's hidden in the pocket and it's as powerful as all our bombs and all our rockets they got the banks the tanks the governments and they want the country too but we got better country music than they do recuperated art can tell you how to feel and just whom you can be and the lyrics comin out of Nashville read like a melange of worn out memes radio or tv a corporate hegemony has got the power to define your hometown's ideology
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That Good Ol Smashy Smashy 03:48
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here's a good old one about riotin and smashin things well the liberals are finally upset so we're hittin the street everybody's got a fun sign and we're feelin real neat but there's another group who really came to rumble all dressed in their all black clothes and when they start to smashin windows and a lightin the fires all the liberals say OH NO but smashin up a bank all dressed in black well that ain't no skin off my back that bank burned half the folk in my town you can burn it right down to the ground well you might never do what the black bloc do but they do it for freedom and they do it for you so that good ol smashy smashy is just alright with me got a system that we're born into and we're tryin to work but it was never made to serve us so we're goin berserk we know that we're killin off the planet but we'd trade it all to be employed well it shouldn't take a bum like me to tell you that system oughta be destroyed so [chorus] we ain't talkin bout comin to your house to ruin your things we ain't talkin bout smashin up the hospital or library naw we're talkin bout meetin power face to face in the places it controls we'll burn what won't break then build a new world from the ashes of the old so [chorus] smashin windows might peak some of your fears but where the hell ya been for the last thirty years?
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Wild One Runnin 05:21
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i don't know if y'all heard, but... bout a brave hero named Willem Van Spronson. He went and burnt a bunch of ICE buses. That's the kinda thing we like to glorify down on the farm so we wrote a song about it there was a man and his name was Willem Van Spronson a man who was free and would always put up a fight the life he'd been livin and current events he'd been watchin led him to know there was somethin that just wasn't right so he loaded up his gas cans and went into the town where the ICE is and he found their buses and burned them down well Willem knew you got to burn it burn it burn it when they do the violence we'll return it they lock us up, they take the kids and that's why we burn their shit and if you do they may take your life from you and forever's a long time it's true but when it comes to never again forever's what you do life had been long and been hard and been sad for Willem he'd finally reached the age of 69 touchin the flame to the rag and blowin out windows Willem lived his last years in just one night and i heard he did almost a half a million dollars in damage before the police could gun him down [chorus] fadin to the sound of the cops on the radio Willem died free like a wild one runnin
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Outro 01:19
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Well thanks so much for comin out We wanna thank the other bands tonight Troll 2 Out Of System Transfer Some Old Gay Dude Is that right? Is that what I read? Is that right? anyhow My name's Moose and that's uh Robin Banks on the bass Got uh, Goat Rabbitman on the fancy time drums in the back and uh Con Man on the fiddle We are Chit Holdems Like to say thanks to the 127 troop for havin us out It's always great to come and play so close to the seat of authority in our lovely peninsular area. You know maybe someday they'll let us in i don't know ok Ready to take it on home?
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Party Green 03:47
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[name redacted], whataya wanna hear? **I gotta ride in the Honda Fit later and i was wonderin if there was somethin you could do to make it a little more my style** sittin one day just a thinkin bout the planet that old environment and all a them weirdo hippies who think they can try to save it then in a burst it occurred to me hey Earth that's where i grow my beans and corn maybe I should pitch in a little more well i like four wheel drivin but i'm burnin too much gas so i'll take a vehicle with less of a footprint and give it just a touch of country class put the bronco up on craigslist built a lift kit for an 06 prius changed it over to 4WD with four speed stick shift and 30 inch tires hit the woods and i tear it up got the beer in my reusable plastic cup now i don't know if i can do the green party but i'll betcha i can party green took my big ol prius to a big keg party and i was thinkin on the way bout all of them little red cups that we'd all be throwin away i thought hey i can move in time there's a yard sale up on the county line's got a plastic cup it was made in the 80s and a nickle'll make it mine i'm the green scene at the bonfire with my reusable plastic cup and best of all it's got a lid and a handle for when i get too drunk [chorus] gettin 50 miles to the gallon when i'm roarin down the trail and them 30 inchers throw some clean efficient rooster tail got a rebuilt dana 44 and a snorkel up on top and it makes a most surprising noise when i take off from the parkin lot it goes.... [chorus]

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released August 22, 2019

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