Metal Drums; Patty Larkin

From the time he was a kid

Mark O'Donnell and his buddies would

Play in the pasture out behind his neighborhood

There were acres of vacan land

And they played as only children can

Oohh in the pasture

Out in the long tall grass

Metal Drums were lying in the broken glass

The kids would play with the stuff inside of them

They'd crawl in and roll around

End up spinning around on the summer ground

Oohh in the pasture

Oohh, they were playing with the Metal Drums

Aahh, banging on the Metal Drums now

Oohh, beat that Metal Drum a little faster

In the town of Hollbrook, Mass

You're lucky if you got the chance

Working a good job making a few bucks

And it's Baird and McClair

they run that chemical plant down there

Oohh, by the pasture

Oohh, they were playing with the Metal Drums

Aahh, banging on the Metal Drums now

Oohh, beat that Metal Drum a little faster

Joanne O'Donnell had five kids

And all but one of her kids got sick

She was hard pressed for answers

And on the other side of town

There was a street where all the doctors found

Every other woman died of cancer

Oohh, they were playing with the Metal Drums

Aahh, banging on the Metal Drums now

Oohh, beat that Metal Drum a Little faster

The news broke like a lightning bolt across the red hot sky

In the blue TV light, Joanne O'Donnell cried

Seemed like the kiss of death hung in the air

When a whole town found out they'd been poisoned for years

The environmental plan

Put the site on the list of the big Top Ten

To the tune of sixty-three million

Thanks to the women and the wives

There's a chain link fence up eight feet high

But that won't bring back their children

As for Baird and McClair

All the soil from teh ground to the bedrock down there

Was ruined by the bastards

Thanks to the corporate mind

They protected their assets

They're doing fine

Too bad about the Hollbrook disaster

Oohh, they were playing with the Metal Drums

Aahh, banging on the Metal Drums now

Oohh, beat that Metal Drum a little faster

Oohh, playing with the Metal Drums

Aahh, banging on the Metal Drums

Oohh, beat that Metal Drum a little faster

Beat that Metal Drum a little faster now

Beat that Metal Drum

Beat that Metal Drum