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Amish Thunder Road

by Geo. McCalip

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The tune by Robert Mitchum is used under the fair use exemption to copyright based on its use in a parody and its use in a political statement.

A performance of the original song is available at youtu.be/tdwUpxkfSJw

I believe the person who wrote the tune (or, as here, his estate) should also benefit from the use of this tune so I have offered to work out a licensing agreement for use of the tune even though I am not required by law to do so in this case. The offer remains open.

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Amish Thunder Road
By Geo. McCalip © 2011

[SPOKEN INTRO]
At 5:00 o’clock on the morning of April 22, 2010, as the culmination of a yearlong sting operation, brave Federal Agents staged a predawn armed raid on a farm in Pennsylvania.

Admitted, the raw milk produced by the Amish on the farm was safe, healthy an legal to drink in Pennsylvania, and it was was safe, healthy an legal to drink in Maryland. But the crime these evil Amish had committed was, in the Feds’ own words, “smuggling raw milk across state lines.”

That’s right, smuggling. The Amish. Obviously in buggies so cleverly disguised as muscle cars that it only took the Feds a year to catch them. Your tax dollars at work.

As off the charts ludicrous as this was, and as difficult as it was to believe the Feds were treating the Amish as if they were bootleggers running moonshine, and not say, oh, dairy farmers hauling milk, I have to admit it wasn’t that difficult to write the song.

As a matter of fact, it was actually rather fun.

So, with apologies to one Robert Mitchum…

[SONG]
Word came down from Washington there’d be no more raw milk
For the health food freaks and other weirdoes of their ilk.
An Amish crime syndicate taking on the law
Said that they’d provide the milk for those who like it raw.
Jacob load the buggy; Issac cover the cans.
We’ve raw milk to deliver and we must outrun the man.

CHORUS:
And it was thunder, thunder over thunder road.
Thunder was his big horse, raw milk was his load.
Oh it was moo juice, not moonshine he ran for the kids.
The law they swore they’d get him but you know they never did.

CHORUS

Out of Pennsylvania into Maryland,
Get this raw milk to the kids, boys, you know the plan.
But brave Federal Agents ran a sting divine
Against those wicked Amish, smuggling milk across state lines.
In order to protect us they must uphold the law,
God forbid you should ever drink any milk that’s raw.

CHORUS

He was loaded by 4:30 and long gone by 5:00;
A buggy ride to Maryland makes for quite a drive.
With a load of raw milk he had to get through;
And to help him on his way, he drank a can of Mt. Dew.
That brave Amish driver is a hero to this day;
Should the Feds ask if you’ve seen him, well I beg you just say NEIGH!

CHORUS

NEIGH!!!

credits

released October 6, 2013
Geo. McCalip - vocals and ukulele
Sean McCobb - bass

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Geo. McCalip Long Beach, California

Over the last few years Geo. McCalip has developed an interesting niche writing and performing protest songs on ukulele. His songs are strongly influenced by the folk tradition.

He has long been involved with the folk/acoustic music scene in Southern California. His acousticmusic.net site has been called an encyclopedia of folk music.

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