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Second Hand Dress

from Second Hand Dress by Shawnee Kilgore

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this song was inspired a little unfairly.....i admit. i think i was hearing an interview with al gore on the radio, or maybe it was just someone talking about him and his eighteen room mansion or something. they were talking about it because of how they making it a green home and all that, which i totally respect. but it did get me thinking how if people can afford an eighteen room mansion they will undoubtedly have one, and how money can lead us into all sorts of behaviors that may or may not be in our--or the world's--best interests.

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i have a garden
you have a mansion
i have a second hand dress
i have my day job
you have your millions
i guess now you know what is best

so come into my town
tell me i'm lazy
tell me i don't do enough
say to my children
the world needs saving
when saving a penny is tough

i had a dream back when i understood
that we all stand together or fall
now my children need food and i'm trying to be brave
and i don't think you hear me at all

sometimes i'm angry
sometimes i hate you
sometimes i don't feel a thing
but one thing's for sure that
it's never been you who's been
teaching the poor how to sing

and i work the jobs that were left
when you took all the rest
and made slaves overseas
so offer your tax breaks
to folks who can buy them
right here in the land of the free

i had a dream back when i understood
that we all stand together or fall
now my children need food and i'm trying to be brave
and i don't think you hear me at all

today was a good day
i voted for change
in the biggest of mansions i know
'cause while they're getting richer
a damn perfect picture
i'm praying my garden will grow

i have a garden
you have a mansion
i have a second hand dress

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from Second Hand Dress, track released April 22, 2009

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Shawnee Kilgore Austin, Texas

"Shawnee Kilgore is to music as velvet gloves are to diamond cutters,” wrote James Hardesty, owner of the Green Frog Acoustic Tavern in Bellingham, WA. “She holds all this beauty in her hand, raw and untouched, then she chips away until it gleams in the light, holding on with a soft gentleness that she has perfected." ... more

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