“The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pride” by HFE (read by Ta'kom)

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You’re listening to Pride Month on The Voice of Dog.

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This is Rob MacWolf,

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your fellow traveler,

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and Today we present a poem

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by HFE, who once won Artist of the Month back in high school in faer silversmithing class. You can

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find more of faer stories

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on HFEpro.com.

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Read by Ta’kom Ironhoof, the Equine Charmer.

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As loaded as the concept of the devil

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has become, and as many assumptions as it carries in conjunction with a topic such as Pride,

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either the sin or the event,

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it is worth remembering

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that the word itself originally only meant

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‘enemy.’ Please enjoy

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“The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pride”,

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a poem by HFE The devil went down to Georgia Pride

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wearing a collared shirt

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and tie waving a leather book older than my old man.

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He started screeching hellfire days were coming up fast upon us gays.

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The Queens and Daddies all rightly rolled their eyes.

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We were all polite as hell,

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each of our pups a damn angel.

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Yet he'd just keep on calling Stuart

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"ma'am". Stuart got a-squirming,

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the devil disrespecting

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this wholesome self-made man.

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Then finally, this black-haired goth

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got his temper mighty hot.

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He used his tongue to take the devil to church.

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"Hell is the world that you have made,

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laws and guns killing kids every day.

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Yet this is what Christ has moved your ass to do.

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Your pastors are

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doing the real grooming.

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Start running, sir,

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cuz the truth is looming.

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Sir, the only devil here at Pride is you!"

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The devil didn't even scrounge up a tear.

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Before he left, he said,

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"Now, son, listen here.

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You sound like you're speaking from a place of anger."

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It was a miracle that anger didn't become fighting.

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What with the devil acting high and mighty.

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Meanwhile, his churches are

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covering up all kinds of crimes and scams!

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And not even paying taxes to help their

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fellow folk. The devil's lucky he's popular cuz

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he'd never last a day at the misfits' table.

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He'd never last a day with his folks' suicide rate so high.

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His murderers getting off Scot-free cuz their swipe right

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panicked over them

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not having the bible they were expecting.

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When someone does evil in Jesus' name,

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My pastor taught me

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don't even wish 'em godspeed.

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That's how much our Holy Daddy hates 'em.

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So I hope someone else blesses that devil's heart

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cuz he's gonna need it

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when we tell 'im 'bout CRT.

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Bigotry never rides alone.

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So get yourself a goth twink,

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abortion access stickers,

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and some bricks. And in my Holy Daddy's name,

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bless your aim. Amen!

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This was “The Devil Went Down to Georgia Pride”

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by HFE, read for you by Ta’kon Ironhoof, the Equine

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Charmer. Happy Pride,

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and Thank you for listening to The Voice of Dog.