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Hooverville

I’m the father in that photograph,
that was probably taken a while ago,
as the country fell upon hard times;
leaving us nothing with nowhere to go.

My wife, her mother and our eight children
all standing there in front of a borrowed tent,
and have you no dignity; can’t you see
that all of mine has already been spent?

Nowadays, poverty’s no stranger,
but how we lost the farm still ain’t clear.
hard times may be just around the corner
but in Hooverville, hard times have found us, here.

You can tell I’m worried about tomorrow,
Living in this cardboard town with nothing to my name
hoping there be food enough to feed the kids
but, with my luck, I ain’t never gonna catch a break.

I’ve tried, and Lord knows this ain’t the way
I ever wanted things to turn out to be.
Meanwhile, as we are, pretty much done for,
sad to say, it’s all because of me.

When poverty came a knocking
I was too busy to see it drawing near.
till them hard times turned around the corner
and in Hooverville, hard times have found us, here.

when the American dream is broken
and can’t seem to shift back into gear;
them hard times aren’t just around the corner,
in Hooverville, hard times have found us, here.

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from When The World Opens Up Again, released July 4, 2020

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Lord Baldwin Olympia, Washington

Lord Baldwin has created 44 ALBUMS
between 1991 and 2001

Between 2011 and 2023, created, 23 ALBUMS

Published a 4-book series called, “Stepping Between The Ants”

A 4-book series called, “From The Lost Letters Sent” chronicling the first 44 albums' songs created between 1968 to 2001

As playwright, wrote a musical play (book) called;
““RESILIENT the Musical” A Web-Based Episodic Play & Story” ... more

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