Did it Really Happen
by Jed Moffitt

Fake news is the runaway train of our time. We learn the story one way growing up, and then the Netflix documentary comes out fifty years later and the picture looks a little different, not always for the better. Be honest, how many of us came to know Davy Crockett as John Wayne hurling the lit torch into the magazine of the Alamo with his last breath. He was a goner, but he was gonna take a good part of Santa Ana’s army to heaven with him when he went. Then I read Wikipedia, and his heroism is called into question? Davy Crockett? I don’t wanna know. Of course, with the Sundogs, you always get the unvarnished truth. The real story. Remember the Wembley show? Eric Patterson plays the saxophone here in a solo that is very much like a brilliant comet streaking across a star-filled night sky. Is that Wes Montgomery on guitar?

I wonder if some bright light burned a fiery hole in the dark side of my brain.
I wonder is it black and white, can I extradite my soul from this hurricane.
They say that the power of a positive mind
Is all you need to make the world fall at your feet, but I know
I can sometimes get carried away.

Did it really happen?
Or was it a story that I made up, just something to say.
Did it really happen?
Did it really happen that way?

He raised the alarm, the Mexican army deployed in the desert
As far as the eye could see.
It was twenty to one. Outmanned and outgunned, he died for his buddies
And his place in history.

They say that he fell amongst a score of his foes.
They lay around in scattered patterns on the ground, but some whispered
That he was shot while he was running away.

Did it really happen?
Or was it a story that I made up, just something to say.
Did it really happen?
Did it really happen that way?

(Sax solo)

They say that your story at the end of the day
Is just a frame laid by the winners of a game, and what’s more,
The truth is just the spoils of war.

Did it really happen?
Or was it a story that I made up, an act in a play,
Where I live, to fight another day,
Did it really happen that way?
Some buried treasure I was hoping to find? Is it the truth,
Or just a legend in my own mind?

Jed Moffitt: Vocals and keyboards
Stan Snow: Guitars, backing vocals and percussion
Mia Boyle: Backing vocals
Mike Stone: Drums
Chris Symer: Bass
Eric Patterson: Horn arrangements, tenor sax
Jim Sisko: Trumpet
Don Gunn: Mixing
Ed Brooks: Mastering

Copyright 2019 Jed Moffitt BMI, All rights reserved.