So, having mentioned western Massachusetts singer-songwriter Aaron Lewis here recently, just today he released this new track. A language warning for those who need it, and some thinly-veiled satire too for those who are informed. Back in 1850 a man with the same surname, Henry B Lewis, was Secretary of Blandford Literary Association, who published this booklet, which included this reference –
"The first settlers of this town were called "Scotch Irish," ... their ancestors migrated from Scotland to Ireland ... deprived of civil and religious freedom, their descendants fled to this country and settled in Hopkinton (now Sutbury). Thence they removed to Blandford..."
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