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Sundown in Birmingham

from Pocket Knife by Morgan Haner

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Sundown in Birmingham
Railroad children on the lam
Don't you tell 'em where I am
'Cause there's money changing hands

And they're shouting for freedom
But they go where I lead 'em
Like the Battle of Antietam
Where there's money changing hands

And my eyes, my eyes have seen
The coming of the Lord
Oh brother, oh brother, won't you meet us,
on Canaan's happy shore?

Sherman marching to the sea
This may be the death of me
I'm not as strong as I used to be
But there's money changing hands

Custer died like he should have done
I guess that's how the West was won
With an arrowhead and a loaded gun
And the money changing hands

And my eyes, my eyes have seen
The coming of the Lord
Oh brother, oh brother, won't you meet us
On Canaan's happy shore?

They say the rain's following the plow
But I don't see no rain right now
Just the greasy grass
And the hungry sow
And the money changing hands

Up north in the Iron Hills
They got the work that can pay the bills
Coal dust on the windowsills
And the money changing hands

My eyes, my eyes have seen
The coming of the Lord
Oh brother, oh brother, won't you meet us
On Canaan's happy shore?

When the fever breaks
Maybe we can tell
What we'll salvage and what we'll sell
But until then it's a march through Hell
While the money's changing hands

You can carve my name in hickory
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Massacre my enemies
With the money changing hands

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from Pocket Knife, released June 11, 2021

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Morgan Haner Kalamazoo, Michigan

Morgan Haner failed music school auditions.

From the humble beginnings of self recorded teenage basement tapes, 2 hours from any interstate in Illinois corn country, his more recent songs have been curated onto “best of” lists from Spain to Brazil and beyond.

His songs tell stories in the great tradition of American songwriting.
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