danajohnhill.org | Hard Times Come Again No More

Few songs are more evocative than “4th of July, Asubry Park” (“Wild Billy’s Circus Story” is one).  Every single line is a picture of one magic night in “Little Eden”, an amusement park along the New Jersey boardwalk.  Nothing is working out for our hero, who is unlucky in love and life, and cannot even ride the Tilt-a-Whirl without incident.  Still, “the aurora is rising” above him.

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Filed under: Popular Music on July 4th, 2010