Here in the Hollers

(Brian Hendrix)

I wrote this chorus years ago, about growing up in mountain hollers in the Appalachia, a world away from where the vast majority of people grow up. Most people can't even picture what life was like there. I didn't write the verses until all this civil unrest started, and people who live in my neck of the woods started to get blamed for things that have nothing to do with us. So, yeah, this song has a political meaning, but I worded it in a way that it's not very overt or polarizing. It's a true story about Mrs. Johnson losing her land and John finding God and people laughing at him, and the government tearing down all our land and blocking our water, while at the same time taking more away from us saying we owe things to other people for things we never did. "Bear" and "Oak" are the name of holler communities, by the way.

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Raised in the hollers in the '80s A bunch of outhouses and dried up creeks No water to the wells, no huntin' the lands How the hell we 'sposed to eat They won't raise a building for us to live They just raze our barns to the ground Tell us we've so much more to take Sending men with machines around We're still down... (Chorus) Here in the hollers, the sun might shine A few hours a day with a cloudless sky But we got moonshine and homemade wine A bunch of different ways to fish Poorer than everyone else, but pure We're a lot more peaceful, to be sure Well past used to being ignored You know, we don't give a shit In the cities they rage, set fires for dollars But not down here in the hollers 'Bout a mile past Bear see the rotted Oak Where Mrs. Johnson lost her land They said the young crowd needed hiking trails And they just left her with empty hands The big wigs in the cities speak White trash is privileged in some way Cold, starving babies beg to differ They're scared to visit, would never stay So we say... (Chorus) John, he saw God on a mountainside While he was setting snares for food Said to struggle is the righteous path City folk just call him a fool Down here, he's just a good man Give you the clothes from off his back But for one he gives, they take two away His reparations for their past We just laugh... (Chorus)

© Brian Hendrix 2020

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