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Barrier Reef

from Anger Management by Gerry Spehar

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Acoustic guitar minor key ballad about a young immigrant's perilous border crossing; lush harmonies and lush fiddle from Gabe Witcher.

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BARRIER REEF
Gerry & Susan Spehar, Bobby Allison

Maria took her daughter up to the border
Squeezed her little hand
Fifteen hundred dollars to a young coyote
Loaded her in a van
Make it to your Papa in Fairfax, Virginia
Out of this murderous land

Go on, you need a barrier reef
Shelter from grief
Dive to its colors and find relief
You need a barrier reef

She caught the immigrant Beast
Guadalajara up to the Rio Grande
A river of lost children and mothers
Heading for the Promised Land
Papa and Grandpa swam this same river of hope
She can feel them pulling
On a long, long, long, long rope

Singing, you need a barrier reef
Shelter from grief
Dive to its color and find relief
You need a barrier reef

He used to fish its waters when she was a little girl
She would swim to the coral and see a beautiful world

And sing you are my barrier reef
Shelter from grief
I dive to your colors to find relief
I dive to your colors to find belief
You are my barrier reef

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from Anger Management, released February 19, 2018

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Gerry Spehar Los Angeles, California

Gerry Spehar is a folk country troubadour from Colorado and a man on a mission.  Hot on the heels of last year's critically acclaimed "I Hold Gravity” the singer songwriter guitar picker is back with a full blown old school protest album.  Think Woody Guthrie backed by psychedelic guitars and funky New Orleans horns ... more

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