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    This debut solo double album features one album of ten original songs and another album, comprising ten covers of Bruce's favourite folk songs.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Word is the Music the People are the Song via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    A double CD with one CD of original songs and one CD of Bruce's interpretation of the folk songs which inspired him in his youth.

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A beautiful song about the iconic folk singer/song-writer Victor Jara, who was brutally tortured and murdered in the Santiago football stadium by Fascist soldiers in the CIA backed military coup against the popularly elected Salvadore Allende led government in Chile on 11 September 1973.

lyrics

Victor Jara of Chile
Lived like a shooting star
He fought for the people of Chile
With his songs and his guitar
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong

Victor Jara was a peasant
Who worked from a few years old
He sat upon his father's plow
And watched the earth unfold…..his hands were…

Now when the neighbors had a wedding
Or one of their children died
His mother sang all night for them
With Victor by her side

He grew up to be a fighter
Against the people's wrongs
He listened to their grief and joy
And turned them into songs

He sang about the copper miners
And those who worked the land
He sang about the factory workers
And they knew he was their man

He campaigned for Allende
Working night and day
He sang, "take hold of your brother's hand
The future begins today"

Then the generals seized Chile
They arrested Victor then
They caged him in a stadium
With five thousand frightened men

Victor stood in the stadium
His voice was brave and strong
And he sang for his fellow prisoners
'Til the guards cut short his song

They broke the bones in both his hands
They beat him on the head
They tore him with electric shocks
And then they shot him dead

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from The Word is the Music the People are the Song, released February 26, 2021
Words by A. Mitchell, music by Arlo Guthrie

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Bruce Hearn Melbourne, Australia

Bruce Hearn has fronted the iconic Melbourne ska band, Strange Tenants, since 1981, with a back catalogue of 8 albums.
At heart however, he is a masterful singer/song writer, guitarist, banjo and harmonica player, and 2020 sees him releasing not one, but 2 double albums of original and iconic folk songs. His motto has always been 'if you don't stand for something, you stand for nothing'! ... more

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