[2009]
Lyrics & Music Peter Hall..
Album: Story's, Banjo's, Ukulele's & Life

A true story about 2 women, but written in the song as one woman.

At a previous job, a lady came to work with sunglasses on, after being bashed by her drunk husband. It was a cloudy day in the middle of winter.

The last verse is about another lady who found hope, despite a drunk husband who used to do the same thing to her.

"When the husbands drink too much, the wives pay the bill"

[2010]
Lyrics & Music by Peter Hall
Album: Story's, Banjo's, Ukulele's & Life

Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States as well the one who escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16,000 American advisors/soldiers in 1963 to 550,000 combat troops in early 1968, as American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down. The involvement stimulated a large angry antiwar movement based especially on university campuses in the U.S. and abroad. Summer riots broke out in most major cities after 1965, and crime rates soared, as his opponents raised demands for "law and order" policies. The Democratic Party split in multiple feuding factions, and after Johnson did poorly in the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Historians argue that Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism... (continua)