Saturday's Child Revisited #1: Hit & Run

 

This is a song I previously posted on my weekly series called Saturday's Child. I think I played ukulele on that video, but this is a sound track of the closest it ever got, sonically, to what I envisioned as a rock song. This is the original band The UnConcord during a practice in 2018. Not a great recording, especially the vocal, but as close as I can provide right now of how I hear this song in my head. Thanks to band mates back then Warren Dreher, Mel Bearns and Mark Thomson.

Hit & Run

The U.S. Holy Gun Blues

I got the U.S. Blues all right,

The ones the Grateful Dead

Used to sing so well

PLUS a whole lot more,

A whole ‘nother level of blues,

The Holy Gun Blues from Hell:

The blues of a parent

Whose child’s been blown away

By a mad young man who’s allowed

To buy a weapon only a real trained

Military killer ought to carry.

I got the no background checks

blues, the crazy hate blues,

The we just don’t give a crap blues,

The moneyed pockets of politicians who

Are in the pockets of the NRA

And gunmakers blues.

I got the Total Dumass Holy Gun

Worshippers Blues, the twisted meaning

2nd Amendment blues misconstrued

By people who never faced hostile fire

And never lost a son or daughter

To bullets from an automatic blues weapon

& will never be in any formal militia but

The Money Militia.

Yeah, I got the U.S. blues all right,

I got the phony views 

Of why we are so beset with 

So many children’s murders, the

We let anyone carry a Holy Gun 

Death stick blues. 

Bob Loomis

06-02-2022

In Memory f the Uvalde, TX mass shoting victims.