"Cold Rain." (Harmonica and guitar.)

A country song by a traveling Georgia boy, Paul Hall. After being born there six weeks later he was headed to New York and then across the USA to California where, a year old, was taken to Japan. Travlin' ever since. Written in Paris back in the 80s at a cafe next to the old Roman Gladiatorial Arena, the "Arenne de Lattuce".

Also shown are the oil painting and the digital art derivatives thereof, "High Water Ninety-Six".

Words:

The cold rain fell in torrential time and washed the mountain's hills. And in the distance far below, the silt was stored in rhills. Well, it cameto be, in the heat of day, men working, in their sweaty way, to bake the bricks for the buildings tall, without delay, dug up the clay.

The citties grew, with brick on brick in dark umber streets, and all too quick. To house the farmers whose lands got robbed, forcing their labor in a landlords' grip: Where learning become the tool of greed and the murderous war how students succeed...

... to rob the land of simple lives; of farmers of children of hopes of wives. Just cram them into CITIES built of miry clay where war and oppression have full sway. Where the highland dust, beyond the years, once washed by rain, is rinsed by tears.

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Tags:

• Cold Rain
• Torrential Time
• Paul A L Hall
• High Water Ninety-Six
• Digital Derivatives
• guitar
• 6-string guitar
• harmonica
• oil painting
• flashed
• rain-shield
• antiqued
• silvered
• The Sugar River Rapids
• Colonial Era
• site - water power industries
• lone smoke stack
• derelict brick building
• rapid flood waters
• bluish-colored rock mass
• hydroelectric generation plant