Shrimp City Slim

Each month (more or less), we will install a lyric sheet here for a Shrimp City Slim original song that might be timely.

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I was a vagabond in South America late 1975 into spring 1976. My journey started in Bogota, Colombia and I made it all the way to La Paz, Bolivia before the money really began to run out. A lot of fun and adventure every step of the way. Here is a song I started while in Peru. Why is there a slight aroma of imperialism in the very concept of "Peace Corps"?

May 8, 2021

"Mr. Peace Corps" has not made the album cut yet. But you can download all recorded SCS songs at the usual digital locations. Buy a physical copy of (for example) "Rio Angie" and any of our other CDs directly from us - please inquire at emusic@mindspring.com

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Chorus: Mister Peace Corps, please dame la rubia / I'm on my own / The Andes get cold in the fall / Mister Peace Corps, please mandame la lulu / Warmer than wool / lighter than fleece / as free as the breeze / sent to bring me modernity

Soy de raiz huancaina / know my country ways / Proud to say I'm from the march of centuries / We were once the Imperial Order born on high / Life in the clouds / The world dared not speak aloud

I've turned my eyes to the capital / Governments stumble and fall / God is bliss but is there finesse to history? / I've got no use for it anyway / Love my country ways / Sun fires the face / of earth braced for meditation

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