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· May 16, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Traveller's Gazette
This Morning's Verse
The Traveller's Gazette
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This Morning's Verse
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The sun comes up on a worried land
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The price of the gas and the bread in your hand
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Keeps climbin' higher, a fever that grows
0:11
And the Federal Reserve, well, everybody knows
0:15
They're singing their tune, a familiar strain
0:18
Raising the rates to hold back the rain
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Of a coming recession, a word on the wind
0:26
Wondering where the trouble begins, or will end.
0:30
Oh, the ink is still wet on the daily page
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But I've seen this act on a thousand-year stage
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The headlines they shout, the pundits they rage
0:41
Just turning through history's well-worn pages
0:45
Another new morning, another old tale
0:49
Of fortune and folly, of triumph and fail.
0:52
Down on the Potomac, the halls are so cold
0:56
A house is divided, a story of old
1:00
They're drawing their lines for November's fall
1:04
Answering yesterday's desperate call
1:07
From a committee room, echoes resound
1:11
Of a winter's day on that Capitol ground
1:15
While a new bill is signed with a hopeful pen
1:19
To lower the cost, but no one knows when.
1:23
Oh, the ink is still wet on the daily page
1:26
But I've seen this act on a thousand-year stage
1:30
The headlines they shout, the pundits they rage
1:34
Just turning through history's well-worn pages
1:38
Another new morning, another old tale
1:41
Of fortune and folly, of triumph and fail.
1:45
The highest court's gavel, it struck a deep chord
1:49
Rewriting a right, with a stroke of a word
1:53
Now the people they march on the hot city square
1:57
With a million new reasons for hope or despair
2:00
Arguing freedoms of what's to be
2:04
For the soul of a nation, and its liberty.
2:08
Oh, the ink is still wet on the daily page
2:12
But I've seen this act on a thousand-year stage
2:15
The headlines they shout, the pundits they rage
2:19
Just turning through history's well-worn pages
2:23
So I'll tune my old guitar and travel on
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For another new verse with the coming dawn.
