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I lived REALLY far out from town and was either caring for my terminally ill grandmother, culling the forest and chopping wood, practicing the axe warfare JImi Hendrix recommended in "Machine Gun" (I didn't get that it was a metaphor for a guitar until I was grown) or left to my own devices in a big house full of books, records, and assorted vices.

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Lyrics 5/23/20 (not sung)

THOUSAND ACRE WOODS
(c) 2020 by Nick Bensen

Most folks live in town
Or a different neighborhood
I'm out here all alone
In my thousand acre woods

I've got a hollow log
And a rope swing on a cliff
Picking up the traps
Set by that corrupt sheriff

Mobsters cut our grove
The dentist shot my dog
My dad fell off the porch
My cousin squashed a frog

It takes more than an hour
To walk down to a store
Across the road from my woods
Is a thousand acres more

Sometimes things are bad
Sometimes things are good
Either way it's me
My albums and the woods

Most folks live in town
Or a different neighborhood
I'm out here all alone
In my thousand acre woods

I know every hidden secret
Of my parents' room
Sipping on a scotch
I smoke a big white plume

Our here on my own
Up to no damn good
Do just what I want
Don't know if I should

Most folks live in town
Or a different neighborhood
I'm out here all alone
In my thousand acre woods

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from As Crowtown Watches, So Crowtown Falls, released June 12, 2020

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Nick Bensen Avon, Connecticut

Nick Bensen learned guitar from Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo). He played in the Croton Dammed, the Assassins, Three Globe Banana Monte, A Subtle Plague, Polar Arc and 33 Tiger Infinity. He made 3 solo CDs but gave it up in 2005 due to illness.

In April 2020, Nick suddenly regained the ability to play. With 26 psych/prog/fusion releases since then, Nick Bensen is really making up for lost time.
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