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GUEST,Michael Stadler Origins: Belfast Mill (Aragon Mill, by Si Kahn) (45) RE: Origins: Belfast Mill (Aragon Mill, by Si Kahn) 31 Aug 13


I wrote a parody of Aragon Mill in 1980, inspired by a dream that KPFA-FM host Mary Tilson told me she'd had. (http://www.kpfa.org/americas-back-40) It was in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during a bad economic period and retail was feeling the pain of the mining industry's decline.
I told Si years later that I'd written Aragon Mall. He said he'd heard of it for years and that many had said they'd get him the lyrics, but that never happened. He said he and his brother-in-law had expanded the concept to the Aragon Theme Park. Anyway, here is my version:
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        Mary Tilson (title)-Michael Stadler 1980 (Ripped from Si Kahn)
At the West edge of town   
Where the hills get sorta small
There's a complex that sprawls
Known as Aragon Mall.
But there's no clothes at all
Coming off of the racks
For the Mall has shut down   
And it ain't coming back.

[ CHORUS ]
All the Muzak I hear
Is the wind in the vents
For the stores have pulled out.
Off to Florida they went.

Now there's no kids at all   
In the Arcade shooting skeet.
They're molesting old men &
Young women in the street.

[ CHORUS ]

Now, too old is my shirt
And too old is my tie,
And there's no place to buy
For my Visa & I.
For the Mall has shut down.
It was the one stop spot to shop.
Tell me where will I shop.
Tell me where will I shop.


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