Ali Marcus: Music
Wapato
(Ali Marcus)
Grandma tell us a story, the one about ‘32
When you and your five other brothers and sisters leavin’ the dustbowl blues
From the rolling Kansas wheatfields to the Yakima valley low
Put everything in a ‘2 9 pickup and headed to Wapato
Where everybody went on a Saturday night, ten cents to dance
Got in free if you dressed up right and maybe get lucky with a little romance
Mama, she played piano in the band, Daddy, the violin
You can hear that music on the radio but you can never go back again
no you can never go back again
Grandma sing us the old song, the one about the Coulee Dam
When everyone found salvation running though the rivers that water the land
Tell us about the auction and the secondhand store and the lightning glow
How when a storm came into the valley you’d all watch the hills burn in Wapato
Where everybody went on a Saturday night, ten cents to dance
Got in free if you dressed up right and maybe get lucky with a little romance
Mama, she played piano in the band, Daddy, the violin
You can hear that music on the radio but you can never go back again
no you can never go back again
Grandma why do you keep the clocks all set an hour ahead?
Grandma tell us more about the moonshine Grandpa made in the shed
Play us a song on the organ, you remember the words, I know
Pull out the faded pictures and tell us stories of Wapato
Where everybody went on a Saturday night, ten cents to dance
Got in free if you dressed up right and maybe get lucky with a little romance
Mama, she played piano in the band, Daddy, the violin
You can hear that music on the radio but you can never go back again
no you can never go back again
no you can never go back again