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The Tiniest Bit of the Powder

from I Have Missed You at My Table by Mary Crowell

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    Mary Crowell has returned to Mystic Fig studio to work with Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff. I Have Missed You at My Table is her fourth solo album and is a second jazzy love letter to gaming. Consider it the heir to Crowell's 2012 release, Acolytes of the Machine & Other Gaming Stories.

    releases May 27, 2022

    General Album Credits:
    Produced, engineered and mixed by Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studio
    Arrangements by Mary Crowell and Jeff Bohnhoff
    Mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx
    Album art by Starr Weems
    Album Layout by Misty Granade

    All songs written by Mary Crowell except the following:
    “Evil Dice Tango” (lyrics by Ian Badcoe and Mary Crowell; music by Mary Crowell)
    “The Xbox Makes You Antisocial” (lyrics by Lilium Crowell and Mary Crowell; music by Mary Crowell)

    Back up vocals by Maya Bohnhoff on "What's the DM Gonna Do, When I. was a Little Rat (Full Company,) Evil Dice Tango, Hat of Disguise, and When I. was a Little Rat (Vincent and Temple,)

    Back up vocals by Amanda Bohnhoff on "Evil Dice Tango"

    Violin/Fiddle by Amy McNally on "Hat of Disguise" and "Why I Was Late (the Pony Song)"

    Cello by Betsy Tinney on "The Tiniest Bit of the Powder"

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Inspired by The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (This is not a gaming song.)

lyrics

The Tiniest Bit of the Powder
(Copyright 2017 by Mary C Crowell)

Albina and Molly
Ella and Grace
In Orange, New Jersey
You worked in the place—
The factory on Third Street
With beautiful paint.
You mixed it up daily
With not one complaint
And painted the trays full of dials.
The tiniest bit of the powder
Mixed with the water and gum,
You girls lipped your brushes to point them,
And happily chatted with chums.

Chorus:
Radium Girls
There are stories about you
Radium girls
Your beautiful glow
Radium Girls
Your bones were too fragile
Radium Girls
Your Dials in a row

Bridge:
Orange, New Jersey and
Ottawa, Illinois

Catherine and Charlotte and
Olive and Pearl
The Radium Dial
Where the luckiest of girls
Got jobs in the cleanest,
most healthful of work.
And playing with paint
Was your favorite perk
The ‘ghost girls’ would glow like their dials.
The tiniest bit of the powder
Would get in your clothes and your hair.
You could see it best in the darkness
How the dust would hang in the air.

Chorus

Sisters and cousins
All glowing at night
But in just a few years,
You weren’t feeling alright.
The dentists and doctors
were worried, confused
The company’s treasurers
flatly refused
To connect this with painting the dials.

The tiniest bit of the powder
Was safe as safe as could be,
But day after day of ingesting it
Some felt it first in the knees.

Bridge:
Molly had gotten a toothache
And then her condition got worse.
Her bones began aching then rotting
As if she were under a curse.

Chorus

After all they had said about radium
You girls were excited to be
Getting to work with that magic.
You glowed with delight we could see.

Chorus

Tag:
Radium Girls
Radium Girls
Radium Girls
Your dials in a row.

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from I Have Missed You at My Table, released May 27, 2022
Mary Crowell- Lead and backing vocals, keyboards, drum programming
Jeff Bohnhoff- Guitar, bass, drum programming
Betsy Tinney- cello

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Mary Crowell Athens, Alabama

Mary Crowell is a singer/songwriter and piano teacher who loves mythology and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Her Patreon is here: www.patreon.com/DrMaryCCrowell
She may be seen at science fiction and filk conventions performing and accompanying concerts on piano and occasionally clarinet.
Scattering Seeds on the Pomegranate Tour is her third solo album and is a mythic musical journey! ... more

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