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Micah Sommersmith
Once More With FeelingNur Ein XX
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Once More With Feeling
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Micah Sommersmith

Entry from Once More With Feeling in Nur Ein XX.

Call and Response with a guest vocalist that you've never collaborated with before

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Once More With Feeling
*Micah Sommersmith
With the Tri-Continental Never-Have-We-Ever-Collaborated-with-Micah Choir:
David Taro (UK), Joy Sitler (USA), Mike Debenham (Australia)*

On the day that I turned five
I barely cared to be alive
The toys and presents all seemed fake
But then my dad brought out the cake

When they sang that birthday song
It sent me a-reeling
I cried to the assembled throng,
“Once more with feeling!”

As a man, I’d go to bars (Once more with feeling)
To try to salve my psychic scars (Once more with feeling)
The bottle gives a loving hug (Once more with feeling)
But I had found another drug (Once more with feeling)

Though in my head was shifting sand
Music was healing
So I told the barroom band,
“Once more with feeling!”

I know I'm dancing toward the grave (Once more with feeling)
So I went to church, my soul to save (Once more with feeling)
The preacher put me straight to sleep (Once more with feeling)
Then I heard the hymn, and glory be! (Once more with feeling)

My soul became as light as air
And I hit the ceiling
I hollered at that organ player,
“Once more with feeling!”

So when you put me in a hole
And the Devil comes to take my soul
I only ask one simple thing
Give those funeral bells a ring

I’ll claw my way through seven hells
When I hear them pealing
Pop back up and tell them bells
“Once more with feeling!”

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Pigfarmer Jr

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I like the accordion as a texture instrument. That sounds like a backhanded compliment but it’s not meant to be. It just works extremely well for me here. Is that a hammered dulcimer? It sounds hammered and I like it. Call and response seems more like repetition here but it works for the song. This has a cool sing along vibe but doesn’t really stand out from the crowd. A nice enough song, though.

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