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And these will be the last
two there are tap rooms

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all over America in the cities.

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There are breweries in cities,
which had tap rooms attached

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right to them.

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So that workers after they
finished brewing beer all day

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could walk through a
door right into one

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of these tap rooms and tank
up before they got in a car

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and drove home.

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And a number of these
breweries are now-- you know,

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they're extinct.

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But some of these tap
rooms are still going.

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And there's one in Philadelphia,
in North Philadelphia,

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the Badlands really is the
place-- it's 3rd and Brown.

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There's the old
Ortliebs, terrible beer.

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Ortlieb's a brewery,
which is closed.

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But the taproom that
was attached to it,

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where these workers often--

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there's no club, its
just folks go, hang out.

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Usually on weekends,
they have these very

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cheesy can't even call them jazz
bands-- they're combos, right?

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Combos, jazz combos,
cheesy combos.

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And this poem is about that
now and in another time.

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There's an Italian
word in the poem.

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And the Italian
word is zampognari.

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A zampogna is a
primitive bagpipe

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the mountain people play.

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And at Christmas,
mountain people

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would sometimes come down to the
cities and play their zampogna

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and ask for handouts for them.

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So the title of this one is
"Ortlieb's Uptown Taproom".

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"Tonight, the sax's rayon shirt
flames flamingo, pink parrots,

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and blue palms.

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He trues his pork-pie
so the pinky diamond

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winks into the smoky room.

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The top hat tingles the
drummer's skull plates.

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He sees things we don't,
winged things cutting the air.

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A second set at
midnight, the brewery

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long closed down
behind that door.

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After their shift, the
cookers and machinists

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passed through for
beers and shots,

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punched Bobby Darin
into the candy jukebox.

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By 3 AM, they're home,
leftovers in the oven,

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or TV dinners, upstairs a sea
of restless dreaming, roller

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skating on ice, a wet
finger in the toaster.

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And this night, he
remembers waking as a child

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to mountain zampognari, in his
village, Christmas morning,

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bagpipe music breathing high
and thin under the window.

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Their pig gut bladders
call like animals.

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The herdsmen's arms
muscled like his own,

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checking heat and pressure
gauges, breathing a tune,

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dreamed up as he goes
along, like our flamingo sax

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in his ecstasy tonight,
who blows bagpipe

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music through our hearts and
the sudsy breath of drinkers

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quitting work."

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