Antifa Grandpa

from Putting the World to Rights by J. Marinelli

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Dominic as a young airman
Said I’ll quit this shit as soon as I can
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
He and the Blackshirts went toe-to-toe
To the tune of Avanti Popolo
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
He had to flee Mother Italy
For actions against Il Duce
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
With half his crew in San Vittore
Presso il primo aereo da li
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
My man was barely thirty
But he had at his employ
A straight moral compass
A ruck and a rumpus
For those who’d bully and destroy
A tricolor defaced, a Roman axe unfurled
We need a thousand more of his kind
In the place he’d call the new world
In the place we call the new world
Found himself at Ellsworth Station
Became a miner, joined a union
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
Sent for my Nana and Uncle Jim
Saw John L Lewis in Washington
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
Took my papa with them
Dad couldn’t have been more
Than nine or ten
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
If he were alive today
He’d be marching right beside me
Antifa Grandpa, Grandpa Antifa
My man was barely thirty
Though he had at his employ
A straight moral compass
A ruck and a rumpus
For those who’d bully and destroy
a tricolor defaced, a Roman axe unfurled
We need a thousand more of his kind
In the place he’d call the new world
In the place we call the new world

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from Putting the World to Rights, released August 19, 2022

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J. Marinelli is a one man band like no other. The sound and fury that emotes from his haunting Appalachian echoed yowl falls somewhere between Guided By Voices, a lost mountain troubadour and a classic 70’s punk outfit from your dreams.
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