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Move It Right Along

from Song of the Week by Mike Votava

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this song is inspired by:
Stacey Bennetts' Trial by Error: Confessions of an Eight-Year-Old
Drug Smuggler
an excerpt of the memoir was featured in the 2012 Jack Straw Writers Anthology

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MOVE IT RIGHT ALONG
written by Mike Votava

Send me off to school but don’t forget to pack my lunch
make me drive a Cadillac and stuff it full of drugs
just because I have a learners permit
doesn’t mean that I am qualified to traffic
all this weed across Montana
According to my parents, yes it does

Only eight years old
how was I supposed to know
the way we lived was opposite of a normal home
it’s all the same to me
and there’s nothing here to see
proclaimed the officer please move it right along

I can’t believe you’ve never been pulled over by the cops
it happens to me all the time I’m not making this up
did you see the photo of our family vacation
where we’re all standing in front of jimmy carter’s peanut warehouse?
I think we put it on our Christmas cards

Lights are flashing at us in our rearview
heart is pounding, sirens I can hear you

Mee-Maw
Mee-Maw
Mee-Maw
Mee-Maw
Mee-Maw

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from Song of the Week, track released April 27, 2020
written / recorded / produced by Mike Votava
at MJV Studios | Seattle, WA

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Mike Votava Seattle, Washington

Mike Votava is an artist. He writes songs, he performs, he rocks out. People seem to like it. You will too.

Mike lives in Seattle at the House of Pain.

Don't be surprised if he calls you a ding dong. That's just how he talks.
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