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<\/p>\nEditor\u2019s Note: In Virginia, our Governor has announced a new set of officials who can harass us, his constituents. Marlow notes what is happening in his Coastal Empire as America seems to be opening up again…<\/p>\n
-Vic
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\nAuthor\u2019s Note: Recently I heard Savannahian Johnny Mercer\u2019s original version and felt its perfection as a, if not the, blues standard of its era would be apropos of this moment.<\/p>\n
-Marlow<\/p>\n
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Quarantine done told me,<\/p>\n
When I wore its bracelets<\/p>\n
Quarantine done told me, son,<\/p>\n
Plague is two-faced<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll show you its death eye,<\/p>\n
When its harvesting seems done.<\/p>\n
Plague is two-faced<\/p>\n
A horrid thing who’ll leave you crying,<\/p>\n
Plague blues in the night.<\/p>\n
April rains didn\u2019t come a-fallin’<\/p>\n
No more trains came a-callin’ whooee<\/p>\n
No lonesome ships whistles<\/p>\n
Trillin\u2019 over the live oaks,<\/p>\n
Quiet\u2019s replaced the clickety-clacks,<\/p>\n
Now comes echoing back, folks crying,<\/p>\n
Plague blues in the night.<\/p>\n
From Seattle to Miami,<\/p>\n
From New York to Frisco,<\/p>\n
Wherever the plague winds blow,<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been in some big towns<\/p>\n
And we\u2019ve seen lotsa experts frowns,<\/p>\n
But there is one thing we know.<\/p>\n
Plague is two-faced, a horrid thing who’ll leave us to cry,<\/p>\n
Plague blues in the night.<\/p>\n
Quarantine done told me,<\/p>\n
When I wore its bracelets<\/p>\n
Quarantine done told me, son,<\/p>\n
Plague is two-faced<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll show you its death eye,<\/p>\n
When its harvesting seems done.<\/p>\n
Plague is two-faced,<\/p>\n
A horrid thing who’ll leave you crying,<\/p>\n
Plague blues in the night<\/p>\n
Copyright \u00a9 2020 From My Isle Seat\/Mercer<\/p>\n
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