This Green and Growing Land

by Will Larsen

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Bonus items are eleven pictures (in chronological order) of the minivan along my route. I drove ~7800 miles in ~a month. During that time, I...

hit a deer (KS)
saw a moose (CO)
almost hit a cat (NY)
saw a golden eagle (WY)
drove into the sunrise (TX)
touched the pacific coast (WA)
spent a night in a hammock (PA)
plucked a homegrown tomato (VT)
accidentally rode a train for free (CA)
won a costume contest as Mr. Tumnus (D.C.)
saw an actual tumbleweed actually tumbling (UT)
saw what looked like the best dog in the world (OK)
saw riverside wind turbines blinking crimson in the night (OR)
told a four-year-old about Rumpelstiltskin as a bedtime story (TN)
got help with engine coolant on "the Loneliest Road in America" (NV) ... more

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1.	The Motions 04:06		buy track
2.	Walk Along 04:24		buy track
3.	Sleepwalking Giant 04:31	info	buy track
4.	Look Before You Leap 05:13		buy track
5.	Jackson's Orders / Cherokee Shuffle 03:35	info	buy track
6.	Lost Cause (Marching Through Georgia) (this song is down for repairs; a new version is coming)
7.	Drop in the Bucket 04:42	info	buy track
8.	Trombone 04:14	info	buy track
9.	Laika 04:24	info	buy track
10.	Longstride 05:05	info	buy track
11.	Betsy Ross 03:13	info	buy track

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Road trip album!

Drop in the Bucket is explicit (what rhymes with bucket...?).

Song title, date written:

The Motions, 8 July 2015
Walk Along, 18 January 2017
Sleepwalking Giant, 11 July 2015
Look Before You Leap, 2 November 2014
Lost Cause (Marching Through Georgia), 27 September 2017
Jackson's Orders, 11 November 2017
Drop in the Bucket, 14 February 2015
Trombone, 14 July 2017
Laika, 3 May 2017
Longstride, 26 June 2017
Betsy Ross, 21 March 2017

Cherokee Shuffle is an old folk number--grateful to Carling for teaching it to me!

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released December 7, 2017

Recorded on a zoom recorder; edited with Audacity.

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Will Larsen Houston, Texas

this said "more to come, and soon" for the past four years, but now it's actually TRUE (07/16/2023)

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