I apologize for the swears in this song. But when Mitch Benn penned it at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis and I heard it on the BBC, it really stuck with me.
Hoping its message doesn't become more pertinent to us as 2023 goes on.
Hoping its message doesn't become more pertinent to us as 2023 goes on.
The Indiana and the Illinois units came over the barricade north of the railroad and captured a gun. Private James S. Adkins of the 33rd Illinois, exhilarated by the bloodless victory, leaped astride the gun tube, waved his elbows up and down at his sides, and crowed like a rooster. Then, curious, he tugged at the lanyard. The gun went off, hurling a shell close over the heads of the units coming up in support, and bucking Adkins head over heels into the dirt. Miraculously, no one was hurt.
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