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Fight On

from NO PASARAN! by Joe Solo

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A tribute to Jack Atkinson.

The only song on the album with me as the narrator. The lyric should hopefully speak for itself, but I wanted to write a song about why history is important, about how the example set by those who went before us can serve as such a powerful inspiration, and how remembering the past connects it to the future via us; essentially a song about how and why the example we choose to set as individuals is so important.

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I just want to say thank you, Jack
For what you did in that war
Not just fighting and dying there
But what you were fighting for
Six foot four with your Daddy's eyes
Your mother's only son
Return ticket to Paris
And a certain way with a gun

Fight on

It weren't for King or for Country, Jack
You'd never queue in line
Like them lambs for the slaughter Jack
It was on your terms this time
I guess that you saw it coming, Jack
And knew that was just the start
While others listened to Chamberlain
You listened to your heart

Fight on

Six foot four and your Daddy's eyes
And boy could you knock em down
You fought the Blackshirts on Corporation Fields
And ran them out of town
They say a man he dies twice, Jack
First when his days are through
And then when he gets forgotten, Jack
But I remember you

Fight on.

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from NO PASARAN!, released January 1, 2014
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Joe Solo Scarborough, UK

Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.

Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, being thought-provoking, comical and punch-the-air political often in the same breath.

He is not an artist you forget in a hurry.
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