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The Love Song of the Republic

by David Heavenor

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A little satire on those American evangelists of dubious integrity and the previous incumbent of The White House whose love of the natural environment is so well documented.

'Could I also ask for a reprise of The Love Song of the Republic. I spent the whole of the Christmas and New Year period with that great riff rolling round my head. It's worn off now and my shakes have come back...' Penang listener on The Iain Anderson Show BBC Radio Scotland.

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THE LOVE SONG OF THE REPUBLIC

Franklin's up at the crack of dawn
To feed his flock on the gospel song
He's got his words down pat and his black cassock
But i'm on the outside, I'm looking in
On the work of grace and the wage of sin
That's when my shakes come back

The story starts in a little shack
With a cross-shaped chapel on a plot out back
I've got my list of chores, they're snagging on my skin
And when the preacher snarls like the judgment day
I'm telling you boy, you'd better change your ways
That's when my shakes come back

Oh sweet Angeline
When you sweep the altar clean
You paint a holy scene
Of limbs and light and love lit nights
I fall

The song is pure but the song is sour
The song is putting my soul in a stour
I got the hobo's chills by the second verse
And when the chorus swells and the people sway
And the glory train sweeps them all away
I get my shakes right back

Now four winds storm from every pole
And the ice caps melt on the plastic shores
And a wild cat gasps in its last death throes
And the truth gets murdered on a white house lawn
And some blond fool chants a victory song
I get my shakes right back

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released November 28, 2018
Recorded using Garage Band instrument samples and acoustic guitar.

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David Heavenor is a Scottish singer songwriter based in Edinburgh Scotland. He has produced 8 albums plus 3 EP's.

I'm Watching Rosanna. ' An insightful song....beautifully written and observed. Iain Anderson. BBC Radio

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