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The Legend of Swamp Bump Billy
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This is a story about stories, about how over the generations our culture passes down its values and lessons by whatever means it can thereby forming the culture itself, from old radio programs to stories told by a campfire to music, video, and film
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
#16,248 today Peak #68
#1,666 in subgenre Peak #15
Author
Jack Castagna
Uploaded
September 14, 2008
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MP3 7.3 MB • 128 kbps • 7:57
Story behind the song
This song was written with a video concept in mind that contained three main components: a group of people sitting in a early 20 century home listening to an old radio hour exemplified by the "megaphoned" narrative voice in the song, a group of campers sitting by a fire jamming acoustically with 2 vocalists, the front and bass vocal, telling a bunch of kids this story while they make smores, and live footage of the band's performance of the song. It is about the legend of swamp bump billy (completely contrived), the story of the man that found the biggest gold nugget in california history. but it is more about how we pass our values and heritage down through generations thereby creating culture.
Lyrics
The Legend of Swamp Bump Billy In the olden days in the Lodi hills Was born a little baby, mammy named him Bill Cause she took his name as the plain folk does For his long lost daddy in the war of brothers So they lived alone on a bump in the swamp Where the sacramento delta hits american So Swamp Bump Billy used to walk the track, where they growed him up in a shotgun shack he never had no school, he nary had no friends, just his big boned mama and a blind dog fred and then up one day billy became a man said to big mama gotta go to town gonna find me a woman so to be my wife maybe have me some youngins, so mama waived goodbye he said don’t cry mama, Im gonna make you proud I never had no daddy, only you in the house But you’se a strong swamp woman, strong as any old man And you’re the one that raised me to be the man I am So Swamp Bump Billy and his blind dog fred Set down the track unto the dry silt bed Till they came on a town with a rought saloon Where a showgirl Sally took a shine to Bill So Bill took a job at the livery barn so he could buy her some candy at general store And he picked her some flowers from a cemetery hill With every color in the rainbow showin how he feels Sally said she never tasted candy so sweet And flowers in his hand made that showgirl weep She said Bill won’t you take me on your walkabout Cause Im thinking that I love you and I need to get out was in 1890 Billy hit the road with his Sweet Tooth Sally as the story’s told when he stumbled in the creek bed upon a Mother Load Billy picked up a nugget, sally said that’s gold It was the biggest damn nugget sally ever seen It was the biggest damn nugget than theres ever been As big as a melon in the california sun And as shiny as a barrel on a new six gun So billy and sally and the blind dog fred Took that nugget back to mama where they soon did wed And they picked up mama swept her off her bump headed down the tracks unto the edge of the swamp he said dont cry mama, just waive goodbye going to Yerba Buena village where the sea meets sky and they built alittle mansion on the side of the hill and the offspring of billy are said to live there still
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