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based on Woody Guthrie's 'New Year Rulins' from 1942.

Hiawatha Telephone Company is now known as The Family Grave.

lyrics

Sometimes these days can seem so long
and everything you do goes wrong
Even getting out of bed is tough
and the night can't come soon enough
But when you feel like life is weighing you down
and you seem a lot more lost than found
Listen to the words that Woody said
They're worth repeating, keep them in your head

You've got to love everybody and write a song a day
Don't get lonesome as you go on your way
Eat and dream right and dance all night
Make your mind up yeah wake up and fight
Like Woody said in nineteen forty two
This next year is gonna rule for you

You know that life can be so cruel
and sometimes play you for the fool
People aren't always on your side
They've got their own and they'll take you for a ride
But it don't matter to me and it shouldn't matter to you
What ever other people have, don't make it right for you
Find your own way to walk a crooked mile
The rain will end soon and the sun will smile

Like Woody said in nineteen forty two
This next year is gonna rule for you

You've got to love everybody and write a song a day
Don't get lonesome as you go on your way
Eat and dream right and dance all night
Make your mind up yeah wake up and fight

credits

from Passengers Greatest Hits, released April 28, 2014
Jon - guitar, vocals
Martyn Lewis Moss - bass
Maria Marzaioli - violin and vocals

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Hiawatha Telephone Company Brighton, UK

A singer-songwriter sort-of-thing, named after a t-shirt and never intended as a viable commercial proposition HTC was a vehicle for some excellent songs.

2009 album 'Harry Smith was my Father' is described as "immaculate, the acme of intimacy in music" (Common Folk Meadow). A second album 'Passengers Greatest Hits' followed in 2014.

HTC now records and releases music as 'The Family Grave'.
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