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White man's Cause

from The Infinite Room by Eddy Morton

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  • Word bombs is the first collection of poems by singer/songwriter Eddy Morton former member of 90’s Folk rock band The Bushbury’s. It is an eclectic mix of political commentary, childhood memory, and recollections of places visited in 30 years of musical travelling. As a solo artist Eddy Morton has released 4 albums " The Singing Tree" and "Stourbridge Town" both distributed via Proper throughout the UK. New album “What It Is to be Human” was released in 2013 and is available on iTunes . Based in Stourbridge he has for the past seventeen years along with his wife Trina Keane owned and run live music venue Katie Fitzgeralds , New Mountain music and more recently Stourbridge Foundation4Music raising funds to help local musicians. Rainbow Man Eddy Morton's fourth solo album is also now available on iTunes

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Isaac was a poor man he picked the cotton high
Worked the fields of Alabam’ a slave until he died
His ancestors were Ashanti tribal men of war
They were dragged in chains from Africa to America’s bloody shore
His son a Buffalo soldier fought the Indian wars
Drove the red man from the land all for the white man’s cause
His children live in Harlem urban black and poor
And they fought the reds in Vietnam died for the white man’s cause

Tecumseh was a hero of the English and King George
At the battle of Moraviantown he died for the white man’s cause
His ancestors fought the Spaniards but the settler’s in their hordes
Drove the iron horse across the land and the buffalo was no more
In the Black Hills of Dakota where Sioux nation’s final stand
was at wounded knee like ghosts they dance on Indian sacred land
His children worked the high steel on Manhattans rocky shore
They built those cities in the sky all for the white man’s cause

Truganina ah my heartache for the last Warata flower
Torn from wild Van Demiens land to die in Hobart town
Your ancestors lived in dreamtime before the great black wars
When the European settlers come to kill for the white man’s cause
In the killing fields of Queensland they fought to civilise
For the mining companies profits and a white man’s paradise
Now above the Great Uluru the Worowa children fly
For Lloyd Boney and Ed Murray and a hundred more who died

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from The Infinite Room, released March 19, 2017

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Eddy Morton Stourbridge, UK

As the founder member of The New Bushbury Mountain Daredevils Eddy Morton toured the UK and Europe constantly for eleven years releasing 8 albums During which time the band appeared at every major Folk/Roots Festival in the UK and Europe including Cambridge, Cropredy, Skagen, Guildford, Dranouter, The Badentreffen and many more. His latest solo release Rainbow Man is available on iTunes ... more

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