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Natick dam decision playlist

October 17, 2022 by Bob Brown 3 Comments

River songs are a dime a dozen. Dam songs: A little hard to uncover…there’s no “Take me to the [Dam]” or “Ol’ Man [Dam].”

But we’ve cobbled together an eclectic dam-themed playlist for you, to help get you in the mood for a possible Natick Select Board decision this week on the Charles River dam in South Natick.

Oh yeah, lots of obligatory dam/damn references in those lyrics. Whether they’re all about actual dams, not so sure.

The Board meets on Wednesday, Oct. 19, with Charles River Dam Deliberation on the agenda sometime after 7pm.


Päter – Dam, Damn

I’ll have all my demons stuck behind a dam
Damn
On the other side is all I am
Man


Alice in Chains – “Dam That River”

Oh, you couldn’t dam that river
And maybe I don’t give a damn anyway
So you couldn’t dam that river
And it washed me so far away

 


Woodie Guthrie – “The Grand Coulee Dam” (performed by Lonnie Donegan)

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of Thirty three
For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me
He said, “Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea
But river while you’re ramblin’ you can do some work for me


Frank Black & The Catholics – “St. Francis Dam Disaster”

There was a well known water master man
He was the king , he could do anything
The Saint Francis Dam disaster man
Thought she was all right until around midnight


Drive-by Truckers – “TVA”

Thank God for the TVA
When Roosevelt let us all work for an honest day’s pay
Thank God for the TVA


The Arrogant Worms – “We are the Beaver”

You might think a rodent
Is a pretty lame choice
For a national animal
But don’t you listen to that voice
‘Cause all them birds ‘n predators
Just take from the land
But the Beaver always gives a dam
We are the Beaver


Samantha Crain – “The Dam Song”

The water is pushing
The river is wishing
The dam break
My head is nodding
My dream is rotten
Wish the dam would break


John Paul Jones & friends – Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks”

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break
When the levee breaks, I’ll have no place to stay


Gorillaz – “Stop the Dams”

It sort of freaks me out
We need to unplug the dams
You cannot stop the natural flow of thought with a cling and a clang



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Comments

  1. Ray Watts says

    October 18, 2022 at 9:59 am

    Great to see your continued coverage of the proposed waterfalls demolition. Thanks Bob.
    The possible loss of the falls would be horrible tragedy. The songs you should be selecting would involve loss, death of a loved one, and the empty, vacant feeling when a dear friend or spouse passes.

    Reply
  2. Denise says

    October 18, 2022 at 10:30 am

    You two crack me up!!!!!!

    Reply
  3. doug says

    October 18, 2022 at 3:35 pm

    I love this list!

    Reply

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