- Recording and Instrumentation:
- This recording is pretty simple. I recorded it in Garage Band on my PowerBook using its built-in mic. That is why the quality is kind of questionable. The base track is me singing and playing the guitar at the same time. On top of that is another track of me drumming on my guitar body, but it is fairly quiet. There is also a track of high pitched guitar, but that is essentially mixed down to nothing, because I didn't like it that much.
- Lyrics:
- How can you keep on movin' unless you migrate too
They tell you to keep on movin' but migrate you must not do
The only reason for movin' and the reason why I roam
Is to move to a new location and find myself a home
I can't go back to the homestead that shack no longer stands
They said I wasn't needed had no claim to the land
Come on come on and get movin' is the only thing for you
But how can you keep movin' unless you migrate too
(whistling)
And if you pitch your little tent along the broad highway
The board of sanitation says sorry ya can't stay
Come on come on and get movin' is the ever lastin' cry
Can't stay can't go back ya can't migrate so where in the hell am I?
How can you keep on movin' unless you migrate too
They tell you to keep on movin' but migrate you must not do
The only reason for movin' and the reason why I roam
Is to move to a new location and find myself a home
- Song History:
- This song is by Ry Cooder whom my dad introduced me to a few years ago. It is about farmers durring the Depression being forced off their land and being stopped from moving across country.
- Recorded on: 27 October 2005
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