This Land Is Your Land (Olympics Edition)

from Heavy Metal Kidz (Single)/This Land is Your Land by Awkward Energy

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This Land Is Your Land
The Olympics Edition

In the summer of 2015 I worked for an outdoor school taking teenagers backpacking. We wrote this version of This Land Is Your Land while finishing up our 5 day hike in the Olympic Mountains in Washington state. We recorded it on my phone in the parking lot before they got picked up by their parents.

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As we walked the Olympic forest
we stepped in mud, It filled our shoes
We slept in meadows,We ate good food

We held a toad, hiked thirty miles
Got some blisters, on our toes
The bugs were biting, but we were smiling

Ceder trees, covered in moss
blocked our path, that didn't stop us
we pushed on into alpine meadows

Sat in the grass, and pumped lots of water
Walked over rocks, At Elip creek
huckleberries lined our path …

Spiders crawled on our shoulders
Some were fluorescent, some were brown
their webs twinkled in the sunlight

the Quinalt river was our guide
the packs were heavy, with every stride
we walked onwards to our campsites

Pooped in the woods, learned new card games
red 7, hearts and spades
ate lots of couscous along the way

Aidan saw airplanes, one was supersonic,
Syd did a card trick it didn't work
we saw mushrooms on dead trees

Graciela lost her bandanna
and McKenna ran after it
Emma's allergic to all beans

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from Heavy Metal Kidz (Single)/This Land is Your Land, released October 30, 2015

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Jack Lesser Lewis' Awkward Energy Portland, Oregon

Jack Lewis was born and raised on the Lower East Side of NYC, but has been making Portland, Oregon his home since 2006. He is best known as bass player, singer and sometime songwriter for his brother in the Jeffrey Lewis Band (Rough Trade). Jack has released 4 or 5 compilations of his recordings sometimes assisted by the labels Olive Juice Music, Smoking Gun, Ample Play and Stitch Stitch Records ... more

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