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Vanilla Shake

from El Pulpo by John Davis & the Cicadas

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    Handmade by Dennis Callaci for Shrimper Records, black and white cover features Andrew Levi-Hiller's drawing as the frontpiece. Limited edition of 150 to start. I only have

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For more on Vanilla Shake see:
Greg Tate, ed., Everything But the Burden: What
White People Are Taking From Black Culture
Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy
and the American Working Class
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts

lyrics

I skim the cream off of the top
You sew the seams inside my shop
A stitch in time in Vietnam
The minerals for atom bombs

It’s my vanilla shake
My sweet tooth, your backache

Migrant workers picking crops
Gettin’ chased by border cops
A private prison raking cash
Helping congress grow their stash

It’s my Vanilla Shake
My sweet tooth, your backache
It’s our Vanilla Shake
USA on the take

I’m from the north I eat the south
Pineapples stuffed inside my mouth
I skim the cream right off the top
A patriot who loves to shop

credits

from El Pulpo, released October 20, 2017
Drums, Upright Piano: Louis Landry
Double Bass: Jonathan Henderson
Trombone: Jeb Bishop
Clarinet, Saxophone: Sam Davis
Trumpet: Jeff Weidhaas
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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