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    "21st Century PO Blues"genre: Acoustic Blues
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    Minor blues with a quasi- mid- Eastern feel. Makes you feel like you're delivering mail from the back of a camel.
    CD: Gallery of Hearts   Label: Phenmark Music
    Credits: Words and music by Steve Baker

    Story Behind the Song
    The female singer on this disc is Nadine. She works at a local post office as a clerk.One day she said she would like to sing a song about how sucky her job is. She told me a list of grievances and I put them together in a song. Incidentally,this song was written before the Anthrax scare last year.

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    Well this graveyard shift
    will bury me alive
    I'm too tired to see
    I really shouldn't drive
    But I gotta make it home
    'cause my family's depending on me
    That's how it goes when you're
    working for the PO
    in the 21st century
    I used to arise
    at three o'clock in the morning
    Out on the dock
    I'd see the sun a-dawnin'
    But I never saw the beauty
    and the future's coming much too slow
    No, I never saw the beauty
    the bell summoned me to duty
    How I landed here I just don't know
    So I'll process one more letter
    as I hope for something better
    at the 21st century PO
    The hands of the man
    who stands and throws can
    be compared to a gardener's tool
    Crippled with pain,
    his fingers deranged
    Silent, he works like a mule
    Oh, I wonder if he sees something better
    on the horizon down the road
    Does he see something better
    tell me, does it really matter
    in the 21st century PO
    They say the days of overtime
    will soon be coming to an end
    I need a fifty hour week
    to pay the mortgage
    Oh, my situation finds me
    needing overtime just to survive
    I'm gonna change my situation
    find a brand new occupation
    say goodbye to everyone I know
    Till then I'll hope for something better
    as I process one more letter
    in the 21st century PO!


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