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Mia Pixley - Generally General Lee

from Bushwick Book Club Presents THE KILLER ANGELS by The Bushwick Book Club

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Mia wrote and recorded this track. She was not there for the performance on July 30th, 2013. However, Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky performed a dance piece to the song so people would have something to look at while the song played. It was the first choreographed, literature-dance number performed at a BBC show. You can find out more about Mia, Maria and Susan in their usual formation at:
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Generally
General Lee defense is a wimpy way to war
And the flames in your fire only push your mind toward
Plans to attack
But to attack in my opinion
Will put our little army in a terrible position

Generally...

Keep it down lee, keep it down lee, keep it down
(Got to attack)
Keep it down lee,keep it down lee, keep it down
(No holdin back)
Keep it down lee, keep it down lee, keep it down.
It's a sad fact that you won't hold back cuz it's gonna bring our army down.

Longstreet I won't let another day go
War isn't for the week it's for fighting our foe
Won't swing southeast just to sit on my thumbs
You want to defend DC, well I think that's dumb
Did I mention I think that's dumb.
It's dumb
That's dumb
Ok it's dumb
Oh yea

Chorus

And the union army occupies
Occupies the hillside
Fighting from above not below
With defensive mellow

And the union army occupies
Occupies the hillside
Fighting from above not below
With defensive mellow

Lets go down to DC
Lets fight them off in DC
Lets go down to DC
Lets fight them off in DC

Wait for DC
Wait for DC
Wait for DC

(Chorus)

General lee defense is a wimpy way to war
But outsized and out positioned make terrible conditions
This is a mistake
Generally we can't make
Oh I wish you heard
Me before Gettysburg
General lee you heard
Me before Gettysburg

Ohhhh ohhhh

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from Bushwick Book Club Presents THE KILLER ANGELS, released August 1, 2013
Recorded by Mia Pixley.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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