Today Barack Obama was in Bristol on the Tennessee / Virginia border...
Bristol
When I hear Bristol mentioned I think of a song by David Massengill I first saw performed live by David at a coffee house in Central NJ. That song, "Number One in America" touched something inside me, as well as in many of the audience that day. The song starts:
In Nineteen hundred and sixty-three
In my hometown, Bristol Tennessee
I was sitting on my mother's knee
Watching "Amos 'n' Andy" on TV
But that was not the series of lines that brought back me back to this song many times over the past few months......
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