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    "(Here Comes) The Holy Bowling League"genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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    Song written after a business trip to El Paso and Juarez. Version here is a "bootleg" recording via handheld at the 2002 Jackson (MI) Summerfest Soundstage.
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    Credits: Written by Mike Kavanaugh - Mike Kavanaugh, guitar & vocals; Frog, lead guitar; Mike McGivern, bass & Mike Pelham, drums

    Story Behind the Song
    In 1988 I spent some time on a business trip down in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. Talk about extremes - look in one direction and see a relatively prosperous city. Look in the other direction and see dire poverty, disease, starvation, child prostitution - you name it. It was rather unnerving. Then to pick up the newspaper and read more headlines about atrocities... When I turned the page and saw a full page ad for folks trying to start up a church bowling league, this song came into being.

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    A sick man lies dying in the street
    A young girl starving - nothing to eat
    Her sister is sold like a piece of meat
    Where is the help they need?

    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Best damn bowlers you’ve ever seen
    Here comes the holy bowling league

    Young man with six kids lost his job
    TV preacher likes his girls on top
    When is it ever gonna stop?
    Where is the help we need?

    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Best damn bowlers you’ve ever seen
    Here comes the holy bowling league

    Families are crammed into desert towns
    Drilling wells in sewer ground
    Boil it into coffee to make it real brown
    That’s all they really need

    Come join the holy bowling league
    Come join the holy bowling league
    If you’re a bowler we’re what you need
    Come join the holy bowling league

    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Here comes the holy bowling league
    Best damn bowlers you’ve ever seen
    Here comes the holy bowling league

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