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Copperton

from Livengood by Caleb Aronson

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In 1911, it was a squatter's land
To cross rivers we removed gold rings from our hands
Boots, bracelets and watches and jade filled crosses
Someone left theirs on and never knew they'd lost it
We came across Barrett on our way to Kennicott
He owned the land at the end of the rail just newly wrought
He made it a town site cause he did not like us squatters
Named it for a friend who'd sank beneath the waters

Won't you burry me in copper town
Where the trees never make a sound
And neither will I in my time
You'll only hear the sun under the weight of azurite skies
Won't you burry me

Down in Cordova they're having themselves a tea party
You can hear their work song all the way up to McCarthy
Where the holy rollers and dissidents make their living off Kennecott
Where little boys carry wooden guns and little girls wear Sabots
Where Heney stopped the Snoose Strike with a single case of whiskey
Placed at the end of the line it can keep a man busy
With all the lights and smiling faces it's like heaven on earth
But if you breathed too much ammonia you'd never come back to work

These days it's been so empty hardly a soul at all
Right down the middle of Main Street you could fire a cannonball
And I'll soon be the seventh victim of a man called Louis Hastings
He gunned down my friends in a town built on tailings

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from Livengood, released March 21, 2006

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