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Bethlehem Steel

from Days of Love & Rage by Dusty The Kid

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lyrics

Pennsylvania, take me in your trees
Bury me so deep beneath your burning autumn leaves
Little town of Bethlehem means nothing to me
Anymore

Daddy’s gone, got dug up at the root
Caught between the casting spill, the boiler, and the chute
Now I’m just a boy in a pair of dead man’s boots
By the door

They say that America has Bethlehem Steel
Running down the length of her spine
She’s hard and unfeeling and cold to the touch
She was born way down in the mines, boys
Born way down in the mines

I stumble as I pass on through the gate
Where on these weary soles a different man walked yesterday
But it’s like the foreman says, we don’t get no time to waste
Past the door

And I learned to work, I learned to toil and rush
Pretending all these hours won’t just someday turn to rust
My lungs are getting speckled like the belly of a thrush
In the morn

They say that America has Bethlehem Steel
Running down the length of her spine
I’m shackled to her bed and now she’s bearing down like lead
Pushing all that weight into mine, boys
Pushing all that weight into mine

And I’ve seen their towers crowned, your cities fed
I’ve made thunder, I’ve made fire loud enough to wake the dead
Promises were made, I can’t remember what they said
Anymore

They say that America has Bethlehem Steel
Running down the length of her spine
But how can I carry the weight of a nation
With a back made of old knotted pine, boys
A back made of old knotted pine?

credits

from Days of Love & Rage, released February 18, 2022
Produced by Quint Bishop & Tyson Gerhardt
Recorded & Mixed by Quint Bishop
Mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering

All songs by Dusty The Kid
All songs performed by Dusty The Kid & The Recession Special

Dusty The Kid: Vox, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Accordion, Tin Whistle, and Bodhran
“Bucky Eyed” Geoffrey Taylor: Fiddle
Stovepipe Rides Again: Bass
Thrift Storrs Bishop: Percussion

Additional Vocals by Natalia Boise, Katie Conrad, and Zach French
ACAB Radio Host: Natalia Boise
Locutor de ACAB Rádio España: Antonio Al

Album Art by Courtney Blazon
Design by Cat Hamilton & Tyson Gerhardt

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Dusty The Kid Missoula, montana

Hailing from the mountains of Western Montana, Dusty The Kid brings politically charged folk with grim determination and idealistic hope. A multi-instrumentalist, actor, and playwright, The Kid weaves stories with the sounds of olde tyme mountain songs, rowdy pub sessions, and coal covered folk punk. ... more

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