Hungary -1869

from Song​-​A​-​Day by Bill White

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Following the quelling of Lajos Kossuth's 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule in Hungary, prison camps were set up for people suspected of being Kossuth's supporters. Around 20 years later, some members of highwayman Sándor Rózsa's guerrilla band, believed to be some of Kossuth's last supporters, are known to be interned among the prisoners in a camp. The prison staff try to identify the rebels and find out if Sándor is among them using various means of mental and physical torture, When Sándor is found, he receives a pardon, but those who fought under his command are executed.

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Round up, cowboys
Put them in the bull pen
Always symmetrical
Never theoretical
Push their faces in the mud
Kick them in the head
With steel toes
Strip the women of their clothes
And whip them till their lifeorce flows
into the mud and they are naught but ghosts
in the gauntlet

Rituals of interrogation Promises of vindication
Buit they break your sword and snap your neck
by conviction without arrest The revolution is suppressed

The chaos of suicide
as they fall from the tower
inquisition non-productive
and pointless
Lines of rooms
where men hang themselves
Now voiceless
Rooms too small to shit in
But big enough to die in
why do they only murder
A select few every day
When in the end
Every last dissident
Will be blown away.

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from Song​-​A​-​Day, released July 3, 2019
written and performed by bill white

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