Bridgeport Lathe

from Drive All Night by HOVORKA

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NB: This is not the definitive version of this song performed by The 2x4's, but I think it does a good job of portraying what it's like to "rise and shine!" and go to work in the morning after a night like the one portrayed in the just previous track, Alcohol Beast.

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Bridgeport Lathe

I want to hear the sound of the Bridgeport lathe
It's metal to metal it really is
Your basic ordinary men they work at Bendon Gear
And the screech of shearing metal is what they wanna hear

Foxy secretaries make a point of passing through the plant
And they know you want them to show it all
But you just might get your arm torn off
If you look up for too long from your Blanchard Grind-All

I've worked bessemer converters
out on Cheektowaga plains
And I've even done third shift on antiquated screw machines
And I'd even rather work at slaughterhouses in Niagara Falls
But Bridgeport lathe has got me by the balls

There's no time to sneak a cigarette or read a novel by Ayn Rand
And you don't have to do container work to get canned
The bossman he is staring at the men he's always near
Because the screech of shearing metal is
what he's paid to hear

I want to hear the sound of a Bridgeport Lathe
It's metal to metal it really is
Your basic ordinary men they work at Bendon Gear
And the screech of shearing metal is what they're gonna hear

I've worked bessemer converters out on Cheektowaga plains
And I've even done third shift on antiquated screw machines
And I'd even rather work at slaughterhouses in Niagara Falls
But Bridgeport Lathe has got me by the balls

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from Drive All Night, released December 6, 2021
Music and lyrics by John Hovorka, Jr.

John Hovorka vocals, guitars, bass guitar, programming

Engineer - Craig Randall

Produced by John Hovorka and Broz Brosnan

Photography - Alan Chin

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John Hovorka New York

John Hovorka played guitar and bass guitar in bands first in Geneva NY but mostly in Boston then in New York City. After he started writing songs he was the leader of The 2x4's (1978 - 1980), then Noise Pencil (1982), Turbines (1983 - 1987), Hovorka (1988 - 2002), John Hovorka And The Dawn Of Mechanized Farming (DOMF) (2003 - 2016), and also made solo albums. He is now in Massachusetts. ... more

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