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The Hard Taco Project
is a Simple Concept

I will write and record one song a month,
every month, until I am dead


I have been doing this since
1993 and so far my health is good.

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World War II

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From "and then the training takes over..."

Kidney pie, mince pie
Mulligan stew
Grandpa was a brigadier in World War II
Lemon tart, jam tart
Rock cornish hen
When I call your battle, jump in then

Midway
Bulge
Normandy
Stalingrad
Smolensk
Berlin (spin!)
Iwo Jima
El Alamein

Quick bread, soda bread
Grandpa's in the tool shed

Kidney pie, mince pie
Mulligan stew
Grandpa was a brigadier in World War II
Lemon tart, jam tart
Rock cornish hen
Shoot, salute and jump
Out again!

(Kerry Hulsing - vocals
Aiden Kutcher - vocals
Sarah Lancaster - vocals
Lauren London - vocals)

Copyright 2009 Zach London

World War I

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From "and then the training takes over..."

And World War I
Now that was good old fashioned fun
If I could do it all again
I would do it all the same
I would do it all the same because

What a what a what a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was
What a what a what a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was

You kids these days
Think you know how a war is run
But the trench warfare
Was the warfare there
And a fair war there it was
And the French wore flair
In the trench warfare
Does a trench need flair It does.
And the French corps there
Call a French war "guerre"
Which is trench warfare in French because

What a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was
What a what a what a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was
What a what a what a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was
What a what a what a what a
What a what a what a what a
What a World War it was



(Lauren London - backup vocals)

Copyright 2009 Zach London

Working On a Ship

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Yo, ho, working on a ship!
Yo, ho, working on a ship!
Our hands are strong, our heads are high.
Our backs are wet, our mouths are dry,
Our hands are strong, our heads are high,
We're working on this ship until we die.

Oh Mama, I don't want to die.
But if I've got to then I really don't care when.
I'm on a ship I don't know why.
But all I know is that I can't go home again.
Can't go home again.

Yo, ho, working on a ship!
Yo, ho, working on a ship!
Our hands are strong, our heads are high.
Our backs are wet, our mouths are dry,
Our hands are strong, our heads are high,
We're working on this ship until we die.


Copyright 1997 Zach London

Won't Strike Yet

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From "Sleepy Hollow: The Rock Opera"

(Dave Fernandes drums)

Each haughty laugh, and each turn of the screw
How much to wear my resolution thin
Maybe I did bite off more than I can chew
Which is more than I can do
When someone knocks my teeth in
No points for sticking it out
No yellow ribbon prize
No polite applause,
No fallen hero cannonnized.
Brom makes to swallow my ambition like a shot,
But no glass of beer can chase the edge I've got so

Don't prod a beast at bay
I was all for a clean fight
But it's something I never get
So bring it on, and do your worst
Me, I'll keep my finger on the pulse
Of the match I won't strike yet.

You'd think I'd learn to play the odds by now
You think I'd wear my resignation well, sure
But love has the strength of a hundred men
And greed the strength of thousands more.
I'll show them all,
I'll take that party by surprise
Ride in bedecked
In flowing tails and regal eyes.
She gets one look at me and Mr. Bones is sunk
And should that fail, Plan B is Get her drunk so

Don't prod a beast at bay
'Cause I was all for a clean fight
But it's something I never get, I never
So bring it on, and do your worst
Me, I'll keep my finger on the pulse
Of the match I won't strike yet.


(David Fernandes - drums)

Copyright 1997 Zach London

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