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The Black Bear & The Labrador

from Thanksgiving by The Whale & The Warbler

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I packed my whole dresser drawer, the leather leash and left with a backpack on my back to find my darling labrador. I threw open April's doors and took her on my tongue, felt her paw prints in the mud, and headed for the hills I saw across the backyard's forest. All the maple trees are tapped and sap is pouring out. So snout down to the spout, I followed her until all the trees had grown one-hundred feet around and bent back on themselves. The canopy got thicker and I followed that yellow tail straight on into forever.

Not 'til the only beast we'd seen stepped out from the mist, big, heaving, and spitting spit, that my girl came close. In a fit of hope I stood tall as every tree and spread out my green jacket, but the black bear just stared back. I felt her break the collars clasp, my girl throws her weight around, and she threw it on his back. Teeth down into his neck, he threw off, it all dissolved as the labrador, her battle lost, turned back into a plant, a little glowing lilac. Her one-thousand purple hands still hold my heart and shake it.

Hold my heart and shake it.

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from Thanksgiving, released September 19, 2013

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The Whale & The Warbler is an evergrowing swing-folk family based out of Rochester, NY. A combination of folk, swing, and thunder claps - the Whale's music is a tribute to the art of story telling and the sheer fun of jumping around to cymbal crashes.

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