Truman

from American Love by Camden Joy

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I wrote this song as “The Motorcyle Accident" in NYC September 1989 but after reading a Truman biography I transposed this song onto his early years. It was included in my Presidential Coins project of 2013.

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When Truman gave up on shooting guns at Germany, he brought the sons of Jackson County home: a gun too hot to touch, a princess drinking beer, one lost battalion surrounded and alone...
He came back from signal rockets, planes, and bombs. The stench of death in his throat, picture of her in his hand. Though he had almost nothing, not a penny to his name, he felt grateful for the few small things he had.
Truman came back from living in the frozen ground, his mind focused on failures ahead. The ones who’d known him well now could not place that face, having so often given him up for dead.
After he left her, ol' Khaki Mc Clusters, to end the war to win all wars, she’d step out and look for him everyday. At times she’d hear the wind, imagine it was him, and then come home feeling entirely changed.
When he came home to 219 North Delaware, a great weight had been lifted and now he was finally free. Truman plainly saw there’s little hope for him. Still he knew he was as lucky as can be.

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from American Love, released July 4, 2020
Drums by Lukas Lerner. Bass by Mark Lerner.

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lo-fi americana and caustic wit swirl about a 1970s suburban garage where a 1950s country band plays timeless originals and succinct gems.

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