Gern F. Vlchek - Coal, Wood, and other stuff

from Another Tool in the Shed by Another Tool in the Shed

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Written and performed by Gern F. Vlchek as part of the Another Tool in the Shed music residency in Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

There is a 140 page book accompanying this project that includes this cd. You can purchase that at shedofinspiration@gmail.com.

Also a youtube channel of all performances at: www.youtube.com/@anothertoolintheshed5409

lyrics

Coal, Wood, and other stuff

Sometimes I feel like a big lump of coal.
Hard on the outside and black in its
Soul.
A flame will bring it out, a miner will make a hole
Sometimes I feel like a big lump of coal

Sometimes I feel like a big stand of wood.
Tall strong and mighty don’t you think I could
You build a whole town where once I done stood
Sometimes I feel like a big stand of wood

Sometimes I feel like a boatload of steel
Long straight and heavy balanced over a keel
Shipped here and there how the boss man don’t feel
Sometimes I feel like a boatload of steel.

Sometimes I feel like a big slurry of oil
All well and good pumped out of the soil
Packed barrelled and vesseled fed into a coil
At the whims of its riches we all beg borrow and toil
Sometimes I feel like a big slurry of oil

Sometimes I feel like a big piece of meat
Raised in a barn I suckled on a
teat
Released into the fields and treated like sheep
Sometimes I feel like a big piece of meat

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from Another Tool in the Shed, released June 13, 2023
Gern F. Vlchek

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Another Tool in the Shed Vankleek Hill, Ontario

During the pandemic, in 2020 and then 2022, 24 singer/songwriters took part in a micro-residency in Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Each artist spent three days in a holiday trailer in the corner of a garden working on their craft. Then each artist recorded three songs in the tool shed. These can be see on youtube at Another Tool in the Shed. We then took one song each for this cd. ... more