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Essential Personnel
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I work down at the Market Basket
The one by Route 11 Chevrolet
And I’ll be here bagging your groceries
Instead of walking ‘cross a graduation stage
Never looked me in the eye when I was socking the shelves
But now I’m essential personnel
Got a girlfriend who’s a nurse down in the city
Working hard right on the front lines
When you found out her family’s from Oaxaca
Turned out you then you weren’t no friend of mine
And she’s got family in an ICE detention cell
But she’s been deemed essential personnel
I got a brother doing time in the state penn
Possession with intent to sell
They busted his dumb ass with a duffle bag of grass
And they threw him right in a prison cell
Now he’s got a cellmate who’s not doing so well
But they’re not essential personnel
My daddy drives a truck for Tyson Chicken
All along the Eastern Seaboard
They never called him a hero
When he came back from the Vietnam War
They spit in his face and they damned him to Hell
But now he’s essential personnel
Well they can’t get the Congress in session
They’ve deemed it unsafe to meet
Seems that it’s not on the agenda
To help folks like us get back on their feet
But kindness is a line that they’d never stoop so low to sell
Seems to me their not essential personnel
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George Barber
Composed of a rogues gallery of New England talent, Caliche pulls from influences as varied and vibrant as the band themselves. From Talk Talk to Tom Waits, the Blasters to the Bad Seeds, Steve Earle to Sonic Youth, and back again, Caliche’s sound challenges conventional ideas of Americana by infusing elements of indie, folk, art rock, and proto punk. ... more
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