The Swift

from A Few More Plans by Bob Purse

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When I was 20 or so, certain friends and I would all sit around throwing out fake song titles and fake artists/bands to make each other laugh. The better ones got written down on lists which have, sadly, long since disappeared. At that time, one of the song titles I suggested was "Praise to the Swift," and that one always stuck with me. In 2008, I finally wrote the song, and recorded it the following year.

The sudden stardom (shortly before I wrote the song) of a certain female teen country singer has nothing to do with it; that’s a coincidence, for as I said, the title dates to about 1980. In fact, like so many of my songs (including at least five on this collection) where I portray, in the first person, someone who’s a bit of a crank or a crackpot, I have no idea what the narrator of this song is going on about. Speedy people? Very bright people? The bird known as a “swift”? I really don’t know.

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from A Few More Plans, released July 14, 2019

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