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It would ruin the poignancy of the story but Anna's husband also famously didn't recognize Paul Revere and told him to shut up and stop yelling because it's midnight dammit and people are trying to sleep
And, when they ask me who I am
I'll say, "I'm not from around here"
This is Sybil Ludington. Today is her birthday. Sybil is not very well known and it’s a crying shame. The 16-year old was personally thanked by George Washington for her heroic feat, riding twice the distance of Paul Revere and warning the militia and rebellion sympathizers of the sacking of Danbury, CT. But thanks to Longfellow’s severely historically inaccurate poem, more people remember Revere’s ride than hers. *sighs* By the way? Revere got captured by the British after his stint and had a ton of other riders out on the roads with him or to switch off with. Sybil Ludington was by herself, in the rain, and she beat highwaymen trying to stop her doing her duty WITH A STICK, still managing to get the job done and home safe. Thanks, Syb. You should make everyone happy inside with your pure badassery.
noah kahan really said growing up in a small, bitter hometown is about the rage and the hatred that's been sung about many times before but it's also about love and devotion and the 'all three of us were drowning and we didn't know how to save each other but there was an understanding that we were all drowning together' of it all and knowing people so intimately yet not being able to help anyone and he's morally grey at best in a lot of his songs and objectively the bad guy in others and that's just how it is and it's about substance abuse and normalised crime and teen suicide and country roads and failed exams and leaving and being left and love and hate and love and hate and love and
paul revere is a pretty decent song up until the bridge/outro and then it suddenly becomes the best song ive ever heard in my life