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Think it Strange

from Seven Years by Jacob Mau

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Soldiers brought a big machine gun
Put it in his living room
Said we’d like to use your window sir
There’s things we’ve got to shoot

When he told his kids that story
It became their memory
Though they never saw the bullets
And they never heard the scream

Now in America his son is play’n
X-box shooter games
Thirty points for a clean head shot
No one seems to think it strange

Hum ditty ho hi ho hum
Does anybody think it strange?

I met a woman who had never been to school
Or learned to read
She could hardly hold a pencil
But she spoke in poetry

All the wisdom I had gathered
From the information age
Now in question, now unraveled
Neath those melodies she sang

Hum ditty ho hi ho hum
Does anybody think it strange?

I found a tree that ‘gainst all others
Shown a trunk white as a bone
Branches stretch’n up like fingers
Roots down in the soft dark loam

Forty years I walked that river
Wonder’n what its name could be
Then appearing Adam told me
Oh that’s a great big sycamore tree

Hum ditty ho hi ho hum
Does anybody think it strange?

I went look’n for my princess
I went search’n for my queen
Says it right there in the Bible
How come you’re all laugh’n at me?

When I find her with a royal love
We’ll walk at Jesus’ side
Ever suffering, ever praying
Till the world is put to right

You can read again those stories
You can mine your memory
For one single recollection
I tell you, that’s how it’s gonna be

Hum ditty ho hi ho hum
Does anybody think it strange?

credits

from Seven Years, track released September 2, 2015
Vocals, banjo, guitar: Jacob Mau. Mandolin: Brian Powers. Bass: Oliver Horton. Mixed by Nick Gunty.

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Jacob Mau Chicago, Illinois

Jacob Mau spins compelling stories of misfit people and misplaced landscapes oft overlooked by others, and ignored by history. As this year's winner of Chicago's longest-running open mic competition, hosted annually by Uncommon Ground, he is clearly a standout among the city's best singer-songwriters. Good things await this young musician."

-Scott Schaefer
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Bloodshot Records
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