January 19th, 2010
The South End String Band – being a bellwether for the subtle signs that signal major social tsunamis – have been watching, with concern, the sad saga of Colton Harris-Moore. We wrote a song about the kid nearly two years ago, but shelved it, thinking why make this punk a legend? We’d just end up with Colton wannabees holed up in the old growth nettle forests of the South End, all of em stealing airplanes and crashing them into our shack roofs.
But now we got more reporters per acre tromping our backwoods than they got folks to interview. The world is hungry for tabloid heroes is all we can figure, even if they’re adolescent creeps who would rather steal what they want than work for it, sort of like a woodsy banker who doesn’t trouble himself with burdensome paperwork.
So the Band decided to release our heretofore sequestered tune The Sad Saga of Colton Moore to a clamoring world. So much for High Mindedness, I guess. Look for our DVD in all fine South End Mercantiles or just listen to it on You-Tube. We know what you’re thinking: you’re not gonna get sucked into a tabloid journalism frenzy. But we got news for you — the South End is going viral. Or at least bacterial. Our DVD might just be the immunization you need….
January 19th, 2010
THE SAD SAGA OF COLTON-HARRIS MOORE
Colton-Moore was a lad who turned out bad
He robbed the Tyee Store
He lived in our sheds and he slept in our beds
And they say he was rotten to the core…..
Chorus
Well, Colton had a mom who claimed he was wronged
By all our society’s neglect
She sez it’s not her fault when he robs your personal vault
If it gives her boy back his self respect.
Oh Colton had a friend who got caught in the end
Those boys were steadfast and true
They knew who was gone by their unmowed lawn
And their legend rapidly grew.
It was on a Friday night when the moon was shinin bright
That he robbed the Tyee Store
And folks from miles about they all said without a doubt
It was done by that boy Colton-Moore
Chorus
Well they caught Colton Moore just south of Elger Store
They sent him to Re-form School
And the folks there we know they just simply let him go
Made all of us look like stupid fools
So Colton’s back here now, he’s workin on the prowl
Scarin all the whole South End
And everywhere you go people just have to know
His mom says you ought to be his friend.
Chorus
Colton Moore look around … there’s a storm comin down
The likes of which you ain’t never known
Forget the movie rights and the fame and the lights
They’re gonna put you underneath a stone
You might think it’s fate …. But it’s still not too late
To turn this trainwreck around
All you done so far …. Is steal some planes and a car
Don’t end it six feet down in the ground
Chorus
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