Jesse Owens - Trevor Tanner



     
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Jesse Owens Lyrics


Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Way down South in Tornado Alley there's a town with a funny name
Where folks don't drink on Sunday, 'cause they all've been born again
There's Cadillacs, shotgun racks and Satellite TV,
Hey good looking, what you've got cooking, strange fruit on a darkwood tree
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Some folks dream in colour, some in black and white
Some folks think the dream is done, you just got to fight the good fight
Does it bother you when you scream and uuh!, when the tide is rolling in
Can you suppress that prejudice, just as long as they win yeah
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Have you heard of Jesse Owens, Alabama son
Born and raised in your cotton fields, you could say he was born to run
All the way from the USA to Berlin, Germany

Jesse ran for his homeland in the face of his enemy
And if Jessie would sit on this place, not far from where he came
Where the KKK still hold sways, seems like some things never change
When the ghost of Jesse Owens rise above this town
Make a mighty hurricane, blow it to the ground, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Ooh, ooh, yeah!
Just remember Jericho when you're praying to the Lord
Remember Jesse Owens, wait for your reward
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Lead singer of eclectic post-punk London band The Bolshoi in the mid 1980s. Since has moved to the USA and working as a solo artist and as guitarist and vocalist with Celtic rock band Rathkeltair.

Working closely with Emperor Penguin Recordings' ( EPR ) Creative Director, David Paul Wyatt Perko, Trevor Tanner has been slowly releasing solo recordings. Tanner's first release on Emperor Penguin Recordings was an elaborate 3-CD boxed-set ( the three volumes are also available individually ) entitled: Bullish, Bellyache & Belch. The set consists of 46 songs in total, which were hand-picked by Perko out of a pool of well over a hundred Tanner works-in-progress. The 3-CD boxed-set ( as well as the three individual CDs ) are available at Amazon.com as well as from the label directly: Emperor Penguin Recordings. The albums can also be downloaded via Apple's iTunes Store.

Tanner's fourth release on Emperor Penguin Recordings, entitled, Eaten By The Sea, was released in early 2008. It can be obtained from Emperor Penguin Recordings or via iTunes.

A new double CD of songs "created... from the nineteen nineties to the present day" was released in October 2011. Go to Rathkeltair's website for details.

Trevor Tanner's solo albums:
Bullish, Bellyache & Belch ( 3-CD boxed-set ) (2004) Emperor Penguin Recordings
Eaten By The Sea (2008) Emperor Penguin Recordings
Musical Charlatan (2011) Wee Trevvy Music Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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