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Black Powder and Alcohol (bonus track)

from Angel with a Sword by Leslie Fish

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© Leslie Fish, 9/1/1985

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Black powder and alcohol, when the states and the cities fall.
When your back is against the wall: black powder and alcohol

Gimme charcoal to the measure two:
Send the bullet where you want it to.
Gimme sulphur to the measure three:
Make the powder gonna keep you free.
Gimme saltpetre, measure fifteen:
Neatest shooting that you’ve ever seen!

Gimme water, yeast, and veggie-trash:
Leave it sitting in the slurry-mash.
When it’s ready, put it in the still:
If you can’t heat it, then the sunlight will.
Draw the alcohol away, and then
Put the slurry back, and start again!

Booze can clean your cuts, or run your car.
You can make it anywhere you are.
Black powder in your cartridge shell
Will send the robbers running clean to hell.
You can make them if you just know how.
So-remember what I tell you now!

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from Angel with a Sword, released September 2, 2022

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Leslie Fish Phoenix, Arizona

If there's one name that's practically synonymous with filk (Science Fiction folk music), it's Leslie Fish. Leslie has written literally hundreds of songs covering almost every subject, from the space program ("Hope Eyrie"), to Star Trek ("Banned From Argo") to urban life, history, and space fantasy ("Carmen Miranda's Ghost"). ... more

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