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Ogallala

from The Book of Moss by Bow Thayer

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This is the first single off my new album, THE BOOK OF MOSS, that was started (and then shelved) some years ago with my friend and musical companion Alex Abraham, who is no longer with us (and brought back to life with another dear friend and musical partner Justin Guip. It deals with the media, politics, our history and the ongoing assault on indigenous culture and OUR WATER SOURCE! The song was written during the publicized protests of the Keystone Pipeline by the Lakota people of North Dakota. The headlines have since subsided but the problem has not. In a nutshell, it is crazy that we collectively allow for the poisoning of the resource that is necessary for life...and that makes up most of the human body. I am all for science and technology, and yet we are dismissing the greatest scientists on the planet. I don't think any western scientist would dispute the benefit of prolonged observation. The indigenous tribes have looked at and pondered the natural world for thousands of years and made strong and accurate predictions, yet we give them no platform. I don't need to go into the history or the degradation modern society has imposed here. Nor do I need to explain the importance of water. I can, however, write a song about it...it's called Ogallala. I hope you enjoy it.

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The shoreline is on fire and I’m chin high in the center of the elemental law of everything

This is not a rodeo the picture shows a miracle of collective souls who are braced against the wind

They’re lined up on the Cannonball and standing tall and sitting tough with the whole world watching and there’s great concern

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Holy Ogallala
Life blood of the plains
Ring around the reservoir
As we evaporate
Just a drop of all we lost
Is that all we really need?
Just a drop should be enough
To ride the ripple to the headwaters back upstream

The elders say the end of days is followed by a big black snake that’s venomous and poisons all the land

This pipeline prophecies an act of greed that trumps all reason and the meaning with the freedom to expand

They kicked them off the Cannon Ball like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and the whole world’s watching and there’s great concern

(Chorus)

Holy Ogallala
La la la la…..

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from The Book of Moss, released January 21, 2022

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Bow Thayer's music features his custom Bojotar and fuses experimental elements with Americana, rock, bluegrass, and folk, resulting in a singular, progressive sound that has earned descriptions ranging from “Green Mountain soul” to “modern backwoods music.” American Songwriter says this "onetime Levon Helm compatriot is the best artist to come from New England in recent years." ... more

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