Graham Moore 1995
Alex Sturbaum: https://alexsturbaum.bandcamp.com/track/tom-paines-bones
https://alexsturbaum.bandcamp.com/track/tom-paines-bones
As I roved out one evening by a river of discontent I chanced to meet with old Tom Paine as running down the road he went. He said, “I can’t stop right now child, King George is after me. He’d have a rope around my throat and hang me on the Liberty Tree.” Chorus: I will dance to Tom Paine’s bones, dance to Tom Paine’s bones Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine’s bones He said I only talked about freedom and justice for everyone But since the very first word I spoke I’ve been looking down the barrel of a gun. They say I preached revolution, let me say in my defense That all I did wherever I went was to talk a lot of common sense Old Tom Paine, he ran so fast, he left me standing still. And there I was, a piece of paper in my hand, standing at the top of the hill. And it said, “This is ‘The Age of Reason’, these are ‘The Rights of Man’. Kick off religion and monarchy,” it was written there in Tom Paine’s plan. Old Tom Paine, there he lies nobody laughs and nobody cries. Where he’s gone or how he fares nobody knows-and nobody cares.