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All Used Up

from The Last Tree by Jack Warshaw

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The songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips, travelling singer, story teller, union organiser and lifetime anarchist, are always filled with the dignity of labor, bitterness of exploitation, injustice and equality of worth. I first heard it when I was about 30. I seem to perform it more as I get older.

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I spent my whole life making somebody rich
Busted my back for that son of a bitch
And he left me to die like a dog in a ditch
And told me I'm all used up

He used up my labor, he used up my time
Plundered my body and squandered my mind
Then he gave me a handout, sweet talk and wine
And he told me I'm all used up

My kids are in hock to a god you call Work
Slaving their lives out for some other jerk
And my youngest in 'Frisco just made shipping-clerk
He don't know I'm all used up

Some young people reach out for power and gold
They don't have respect for anything old
Then for pennies they're bought, and for promises sold
Someday they'll be all used up

They use up the oil, they use up the trees
They use up the air and they use up the seas
Well, how about you, friend, and how about me
What's left, when we're all used up

I'll finish my life in this crummy hotel
It's lousy with bugs and my God, what a smell
But my plumbing still works and I'm clear as a bell
So don't tell me I'm all used up

Outside my window the world passes by
Gives me a handout, then spits in my eye
And no one can tell me, 'cause no one knows why
I'm still living, if I'm all used up

Sometimes in a dream I sit by a tree
My life is a book of how things used to be
And the kids gather 'round and they listen to me
And they don't think I'm all used up

And there's songs and there's laughter and things I can do
And all that I've learned I can give back to you
And I'd give my last breath just to make it come true
No, I ain’t all used up

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from The Last Tree, released February 14, 2020
Jack, vocals and guitar; Neil, mouth harp

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Veteran of the 1960s folk revival, he passionately believes, writes and sings with authenticity and respect for traditional American styles and song carriers. He has met, learned from or worked with such legends as Pete, Mike and Peggy Seeger, Tom Paley, Ewan MacColl, Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Clarence Ashley, Dave Van Ronk, Stuart Burns and many others. Watch Youtube. Bio on Wikipedia ... more

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