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King Piggly Wiggly

from El Pulpo by John Davis & the Cicadas

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For more see:
Patel, Stuffed & Starved, Introduction & Chapter
8: Checking Out of Supermarkets
Patrick Chamoiseau, Chronicle of the Seven
Sorrows

lyrics

It started off with A&P
Capitalized in Tennessee
A Memphis chain that beats the band
Bigger than Elvis, and Graceland
The King of Rock & Roll could sing, yeah
But here real cash registers ring
At King Piggly Wiggly
King Piggly Wiggly, spit roasting rotisserie

You know the music never stops
Deep inside the Stop & Shop
Another link, another chain
Another hit song in your brain

The slower music makes you browse
The atmosphere feels like a cloud
Sometimes it feels like you can’t leave
An impulse purchase pulls your sleeve
No one knows what we sell
We cover up the real smell
Strolling for another mile
Back & forth, another aisle
We map a racetrack
Of you shopping, forth and back

Where the music never ends
Safeway speeding round the bend
Another link, another chain
Another hit stuck in your brain

Now these chains are heading south
To kick street markets in the mouth
Carrefour, and yes, Whole Foods
Redline the poor & black, it’s true

Like Elvis did back in Graceland
We stimulate the wide demand
Like a pusher selling rocks
We sweeten Pandora’s box
Like a pusher, but with stocks
What we sell, it’s junk, around the clock
Cuz it started off with A&P
Capitalized in Tennessee

King Piggly Wiggly
First self service grocery
King Piggly Wiggly
Spit roasting rotisserie

credits

from El Pulpo, released October 20, 2017
Drums: Andrew Levi-Hiller
Bass: Peter Hughes
Guitars, Oud, Loops, Keyboards: John Davis
Backing Vocals: Wendy Allen

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John Davis & The Cicadas Durham, North Carolina

John Davis is a musician who works solo, with Folk Implosion, with a backing band called the Cicadas, and with Dennis Callaci. He also works on defending and transforming public education as a teacher - organizer with the Durham Association of Educators. ... more

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