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The Demolition Song

from Sing While You Can by Blue Ribbon Tea Company

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Take This Hammer (traditional) and Silence is Stone (by Kathy)
Bill Kostelec - arrangement, vocals, lead guitar
Kathy Kostelec - guitar, vocals, percussion
Bob Rice - bass guitar

lyrics

Take This Hammer (traditional)

Well this ol hammer, it's a little too heavy
for a man my size, for a man my size
repeat
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
tell him I'm gone, tell him I'm gone
repeat
......
Silence is Stone by Kathy Kostelec © January 23, 2010

I’m gonna break down this wall
crush each stone upon the ground
Gonna watch this old wall come tumbling down
Its been standing too long
Its stood fast and its stood strong
But its time to sing the demolition song
Its time to sing the demolition song

Chorus:
I’m gonna take this hammer watch it swing, watch it swing
Gonna take this hammer watch me swing
I’m gonna take this hammer hear it ring, hear it ring
Gonna take this hammer hear it sing

Some say silence is golden
I say silence is stone
When it builds its walls inside your home
Some say silence is golden
I say lord it just ait’t so
It ain’t nothing but cold and hard rock stone
It ain’t nothing but cold and hard rick stone

Chorus

If you don’t like what I’m saying
Then you best be on your way
I got no time to play your games
If you don’t like what I’m saying
Then you best be on your way
Cause this wall ain’t gonna last another day
This wall ain’t gonna last another day.

Chorus

credits

from Sing While You Can, track released April 11, 2023
Arrangement by Bill Kostelec
Recorded and produced by Bill and Kathy Kostelec
Kostelec Music Publishing
Kathy Kostelec - vocals, guitar, percussion
Bill Kostelec - vocals, lead guitar, arrangement
Bob Rice - bass guitar

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Blue Ribbon Tea Company Spokane, Washington

"evocative" "unconventional" "Woody-Guthrie-esque"

Illinois factory towns, Kentucky heartache, Spokane history...

Singing their stories at festivals, venues, on Public Radio, and on the front porch.

Bill & Kathy Kostelec are "a welcomed flashback to the original American Folk music movement..the real deal." musician and radio host/producer Bob Rice
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