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Dance Upon Your Grave
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I used to have a real bad land lord and this song is about my trials and troubles with that joker! This is the 'G' rated version. I changed a couple of lines from what the lyrics say that are printed. Can you hear the changed lyrics?
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Thad Foster grew up in a hot little desert town on an Indian Reservation in Arizona. A line from one of his songs says " Moved to the city in my youth, never looked back, never knew I missed it. But now I'm a man and I long to go back, take me back to those towns with their big Oak Trees, Take me back to the good ole country!" He explains what he misses about a simpler life away from the city. "Many people think that Country Music is all about pick up trucks, and double wide trailers! Not true! Country Music is about real America. The America that the people living in the big cities never see. The people that grow the food and are the back bone of the American Economy. Plain honest folks that look out for each other in time of need and reach out to others when they are hurting, or maybe just need a shoulder to lean on. Hard work, discipline, self discovery, and the same determination that the pioneers of this land had that enabled them to settle and tame it. To me, that's what Country Music is all about." says Thad.
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Genre
Country • Country and Western
Charts
Peak #9
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Thad Foster
Rights
2005
Uploaded
April 30, 2007
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:12
Story behind the song
Prior to the house that I currently own and live in, I had lived in a ramshackle place run by a cheap miserly landlord. Every line in the song is an actual FACT that occured! LOL! "Rain falling down and we're starting to shake"-The roof had THIRTEEN LEAKS in it! "The power don't work but you said that it's on"-He was too cheap to hire an electrician and as a result , the power was always shorting out due to his doing all the wires and electrical boxes himself! "I'm tired of screaming ' Get down here Big John!' "-His first name is John! "Thirteen leaks today what more can go wrong?"-There were NO MORE places to put our belongings to keep them from getting wet when it rained! I counted the leaks and there were 13! "The sink broke yesterday, the pipe you brought is too long."-When the kitchen sink began leaking more than usual, he brought a broken faucet from one of his other properties and stuck it in my sink but since it was not the same size, he made up the difference with a quarter of an inch of Plumbers tape which meant that it leaked even more than it did before but he said that it only leaks if you turn it on all the way. He advised me to just use a trickle of water after that day. "Screen door's broken 'cause a dog kicked it in."-The tweaker neighbors had a Pit Bull that they never fed and he charged into my kitchen door one night trying to get some food! "The front door's hanging on one rusty old hinge."-Instead of BUYING a new front door, he took an interior closet door and nailed the top hinge into the door frame. I thought it was just a temporary fix but he informed me that it was final! "The toilet won't flush it's backin' up in the sink."-Once again, instead of getting the plumbing done the right way he did it himself and the toilet backed up into the sink AND the bathtub and then overflowed onto the floor. We had two inches of raw sewage in our bathroom for three days! "There's Fungus on the wall it's begining to stink."-His idea of getting rid of the rot was to paint over it! "Inspector came to call told her everything I could. Her foot went thru the floor, you're going down Mr. Wood"-HE called the city inspector to check out a neighbor that had no electricity due to HIS bumbling electrical work and so they ran an extention cord from my back porch without permission. Instead of the Inspector coming down on the tenant, they got angry because they fell thru his homemade tinkertoy wooden staircase and when she asked me about the repairs being done to the property I sang like a bird and his last name is Wood. "You said a "Walk Thru" would protect my rights Next time we meet, Hell there's gonna' be a fight You lied, you cheated, then you kept my cash Now you're trying to get more, I need to kick your ass! Run but you can't hide one day you're gonna' feel it inside A poor excuse for a man, had the nerve to shake my hand"-As we were moving out, he hired a property mngmt company to inspect the property. As we walked thru, John Wood kept having to say things to them like "Oh that was already like that before they moved in." and "Oh they didn't break that, I did that when I tried to repair it." So we figured we would get our security deposit back. Nope! He tried to sue us and get $1100.00 out of US! He had to back down due to my video tape and photographs from when we first moved in. He then tried to shake my hand and blame it all on the Property Mngmt Company and act like we were old friends. Someone told me that "Dance Upon Your Grave" is a harsh title...well I wanted to name the song "Piss On Your Grave" but I thought maybe THAT was harsh so I softened it up a bit! LOL! Well that's the story behind that song. I know it's not real commercial, it was just something I HAD to express though!
Lyrics
Dance on Your Grave ©2005 Thad Foster(BMI) Rain falling down and we're starting to shake How much more of this stuff can I take? The power don't work but you said that it's on I'm tired of screaming " Get down here Big John!" Thirteen leaks today what more can go wrong? The sink broke yesterday the pipe you brought is too long Screen door's broken 'cause a dog kicked it in The front door's hanging on one rusty old hinge The toilet won't flush it's backin' up in the sink There's Fungus on the wall it's begining to stink Inspector came to call told her everything I could Her foot went thru the floor, you're going down Mr. Wood I've seen you lie just to try A penny you could save What goes around comes around It goes round and round When you die no one 'll cry I'll dance upon your grave What goes around comes around It goes round and round You said a "Walk Thru" would protect my rights Next time we meet, Hell there's gonna' be a fight You lied, and you cheated and you kept my cash I really do think that I should kick your ass! Run but you can't hide one day you're gonna' feel it inside You're a poor excuse for a man Then you had the nerve to try and shake my hand I've seen you lie just to try A penny you could save What goes around comes around It goes round and round When you die no one 'll cry I'll dance upon your grave What goes around comes around It goes round and round
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