The Supremes

by Josh Fuson

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The Supremes: a collection of songs inspired by the 9 justices on the Supreme Court of the United States. Songs range from To Cecelia, a thank you from Ruth Bader Ginsberg to her deceased mother, to Slurry Lake, a picture of mining pollution in Alaska perpetuated by an unfortunate majority opinion written by justice Anthony Kennedy.

Click on the individual tracks above for lyrics and a bit of a background story about each of the songs.

01 __ Don’t Let the Sun Catch You in Bed ------ Clarence Thomas
02 __ The Hapless Toad ------ John Roberts
03 __ To Cecelia ------ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
04 __ Blister King ------ Stephen Breyer
05 __ Margaret and Elena ------ Elena Kagan
06 __ Slurry Lake ------ Anthony Kennedy
07 __ Thank Harriet ------ Samuel Alito
08 __ No No I’m Sorry You Can’t ------ Antonin Scalia
09 __ Sonia ------ Sonia Sotomayor
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This record has been mastered to keep the dynamics in tact so you may need to adjust the volume.

credits

released 06 December 2011
All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Josh Fuson at Eff is for Studio, Nashville, TN

Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering, Boston, MA

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While rooted in folk, the soundscapes in which Nashville artist/producer Josh Fuson tells his stories vary from intimate vocals over an acoustic guitar to lush arrangements of soaring keys, weaving electric guitars, and anchoring drums and bass.

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Track Name: Don't Let The Sun Catch You in Bed
in the field for pennies a day / crop by crop, dawn to dusk / 10 years old, savannah, GA / crop by crop, dawn to dusk / that was when your grandpa said / don't let the sun catch you in bed. / pretty girls' arms and legs / page to page, frame to frame / brag about your next escape / page to page, frame to frame / remember what your grandpa said / don't let the sun catch you in bed. / when you gave the bottle up / rave and rage, swing and sway / you show your son how tough you are / rave and rage, swing and sway / that's how you taught him what grandpa said / don't let the sun catch you in bed. / you sure taught him what grandpa said / don't let the sun catch him in bed.
Track Name: The Hapless Toad
there's a man back east in a big black robe / who's calling you a hapless toad / he's just a bigger sack of bones / and he sees fit to wreck your home / he's got three sisters and visits sometimes / across the mason-dixon line / maybe they could help you change his mind / if you can manage the trip in time / Kathy, Peggy, and Barbara / if they're nice they'll talk to you / be a gentleman don't ask for too much / but see if their brother can show some love / wish i could be more help than this / it's not the news i want to give / california's a great place to live / and i'd hate to see you pick up and get / if it makes it easier for you to move on / we'll call this man a hapless john /
Track Name: To Cecelia
wish you had seen me through james madison high / i've done well and i've done it for you each time / you fought hard but the cancer was strong / and it took your life / each day i spend on the bench / feels like i sit with you / no way your brother was smarter than you / but you took a factory job to put him through school / i often wonder what you could have done / had you lived when daughters were loved as (much as) sons / each day i spend on the bench / one of the chosen few / second woman in history / and i'm here with you / wish you had seen me through james madison high
Track Name: Blister King
blister king / who wants to hear about your tender feet / you'd always rather go home and read / but your mother had to push you on to the field / blister king / sticking up for the corporate hacks / getting the government off their backs / how would your mother feel about that / blister king / while the country works to make a home / their future rises and falls with your every vote / don't tell them their struggle is a joke / blister king / get out on the field
Track Name: Margaret and Elena
two girls from the upper west side / hanging out on a saturday night / holding hands and smoking cigarettes / sitting on the metropolitan steps / elena and margaret hit it off from the very start / at an all-girls school where it was cool to be smart / even during the first year, she would hear elena say / i'm gonna be a judge some day / now as they sat outside the museum margaret said / you know we can both get into the same ivy league college / to which elena replied i cannot be with you / because of how high i want to go and what i want to do / just two girls from the upper west side / falling apart on a saturday night / feeling cold and alone smoking cigarettes / sitting on the metropolitan steps
Track Name: Slurry Lake
thanks for bringing your mess to my town / i see you bringing your mess to my town / you come from away where your kids are all safe / thanks for bringing your mess to my town / smart men hide it in the bottom of the lake / they send it to the bottom of the lake / out of sight out of mind it's under water we'll be fine / so go put it in the bottom of that lake / the moose and calf had to be shot / stuck ears deep and had to be shot / like struggling in quicksand they tried but they couldn't / they were drowning and had to be shot / i hope it's worth the gold that you found / i hope it's worth whatever you found / then again you come from away where your kids are all safe / i hope it's worth whatever you found
Track Name: Thank Harriet
you really owe it to harriet / you know you owe it to harriet / you know / she made you look good at your big show / she took the heat and set the expectations low / you really owe it to harriet / you know you owe it to harriet / you know
Track Name: No No I'm Sorry You Can't
what's yours is not yours / it's come down from high court / you don't own yourself / it's your personal hell / no no i'm sorry you can't / yeah it's your body but his consent / no no i'm sorry you can't / because you're a woman it's up to a man / what's yours is not yours / it's come down from high court / you don't own yourself / it's your personal hell / no no i'm sorry you can't / it's your life but it's up to him / no no i'm sorry you can't / until you rise up and make a stand
Track Name: Sonia
sonia / get back to bronxdale / you're way to young to be working retail / you should go home. / sonia / it's getting dark out / and perry mason is just about on now / you should go home / you should go home