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Track: The General
Artist: DISPATCH
Album: Bang Bang

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Name: DISPATCH
Spotify Genres: jam band
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Dispatch is an American indie/roots band. The band consists of Brad Corrigan (vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, harmonica) and Chad Urmston (vocals, guitar, bass, percussion). The band's original bassist, Pete Francis Heimbold, left in 2019. The band, which is based in the Boston area, was originally active from 1996 until 2002. The members then announced a hiatus, which would ultimately last for almost a decade; during this period, the band came together for reunion concerts in Boston (2004), New York City (2007), and Washington, D.C. (2009). The hiatus ended at the beginning of 2011, when the band announced a national tour. In May of the same year, Dispatch released an EP containing six new songs, their first all-new release since 2000. The band released both their first studio album in over a decade, Circles Around the Sun, and an iTunes session in 2012 and toured North America that summer in support of the album. On April 22, 2013, Dispatch announced a double-disc live album called "Ain't No Trip to Cleveland Vol. 1", released on June 4, 2013. After a long hiatus, Dispatch returned with their new album, America, Location 12, released on June 2, 2017.

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Release: Dispatch - Bang Bang
Year: 2011
Genres: Rock

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There was a decorated General with a heart of gold That likened him to all the stories he told Of past battles won and lost And legends of old A season veteran in his own time. On the battlefield he gain respectful fame With many medals of bravery and stripes to his name He grew a beard as soon as he could To cover the scars on his face and Always urged his men on But on the eve of great battle with the infantry in dream The old general tossed in his sleep And wrestled with its meaning He awoke from the night to tell what he has seen And walked slowly out of his tent. All the men held tall with their chests in the With a courage in their blood And a fire in their stare It was a gray morning and they all wondered how they would fare Till the old general told them to go home. He said, "I have seen the others And I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting And I've seen their mothers And I will no other to follow me where I'm going So take a shower and shine your shoes You've got no time to lose You are young men you must be living. Take a shower and shine your shoes You've got no time to lose You are young men you must be living. Go now you are forgiven." Yeah... But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders Not knowing what to do with the contradicting orders The General said he would do his own duty But he extended no further The men could go as they pleased But not a man moved their eyes gazed strait ahead Till one by one they stepped back and not a word was said The old General was stuck with his own words Echoing in his head He then prepared to fight He said, "I have seen the others And I have discovered that this fight is not worth fighting No and I've seen their mothers And I will no other to follow me where I'm going So take a shower and shine your shoes You've got no time to lose You are young men you must be living. Take a shower and shine your shoes You've got no time to lose You are young men you must be living. Go now you are forgiven." Yeah... Go now you are forgiven Go now you are forgiven Go now you are forgiven Go Go now you are forgiven Go now you are forgiven Go now you are forgiven Go oh Go now you are forgiven Go now you are forgiven Go now you got to be got to be got to be got to be got to behave...