Hold the Fort

by Berta Bigtoe

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there's talk of exodus
friends take to eastern peaks, midwestern plains
each speaks of coming back
the patch is all that's left for us
i hope it's something fresh
bucolic lessons,
to keep us all in track

i understand my place
i'll hold the fort for you
and chart the growth
of all our garden's fruit
while I am growing too

there's talk of exodus
an ally's eye on prospect city
such a pity
prospects all for jack
he'll settle for the element
and likes how folks are snappy
where it's happening
won't cut our city slack

i understand my place
i'll hold the fort for you
and chart the growth
of all our garden's fruit
while i am growing too

i felt the exodus
a lover for vocation
stationed near me
and somehow out of reach
is this the end of us?
the question has me bumbling
racing headlong
and stumbling on the streets

i understand my place
i'll hold the fort for you
and chart the growth
of all our garden's fruit
while i am growing too

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released October 18, 2018
Tape transfer/Master: Alex Garcia-Rivera (Mystic Valley Studio in Medford, MA)

Track art: Jackson Zinn-Rowthorn

(We will only give credits to those with hyphenated last names. For example, thank you Antoine Malfroy-Camine for everything you are)

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Mounds of love to Ben and Jackson and Sivan and Kaelan and Hannah, about whom this song was written.

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Austin Koenigstein

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