The red clay of the Appalachian slope does not remember the names of the men who clawed at its belly, but it remembers the weight of their hunger; it is a soil that has swallowed the black dust of the mines and the white bones of the dispossessed, yet now it is asked to host a new kind of ghost, a foreign specter born of the veldt and the kopje.










“Old pirates, yes, they rob I; Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took IFrom the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong By the hand of the all mighty. We forward in generationTriumphantly.Won’t you help me sing
“Like the pine trees lining the winding road I’ve got a name I’ve got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I’ve got a name I’ve got a name And I carry it with me like my daddy did But I’m living the dream that he kept hid Moving me down the highway Rolling me down the highway Moving ahead so life won’t pass me by Like the North wind whistling down the sky I’ve got a song I’ve got a song Like the whip-poor-will and the babies cryingI’ve got a song I’ve got a song And I 




