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Teachers’ Lounge is a country rock song for today’s era. It contrasts the collective despair being felt among many currently active professors and teachers, with the opulence of the prevailing material condition in which these complaints are registered.

The point of the song is enhanced by the video contribution of Producer Don Kaufman, who had to sit in the director’s chair with a video director’s hat on to achieve this powerful interpretation of the lyrics.

Teachers’ Lounge is a straightforward country rock song in style and harmonic progressions. In contrast to the usual renderings of modern country or rock music, however, it has no strict verse and chorus arrangement, and, it features harmonic modulations; isn’t that interesting!? The form could be stated as almost a standard rondo form, as the chorus is interspersed between four verses, each of which is actually a totally separate episode.

All these subtle techniques pass virtually unnoticed by a usual listening focus, as the song has a very pleasing pace with considerable poetic quality in the lyrics for the type of subject at hand.

This song exemplifies a current trend toward more elemental straight-forward music that rests on quality melodies and chord progressions, with lyrics in old time standard English. The band welcomes this trend with this song, without disparaging anyone wanting to do otherwise. But any audience should rest assured that we are not just jumping on this bandwagon. The Dog Pack members have written this way throughout their musical lives, and it is finally coming back around now that greater numbers from within new generations of the listening public are gravitating back into more melodic music.

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TEACHERS LOUNGE

This is a teachers lounge, we don’t serve no beer
If you’re looking for a good time, you want to get out of here

If listening to James Taylor takes away your breath
But a slight bit of Ozark banjo picking goes way beyond your depth
If the songs of Robert Johnson still give you goose bumps today
But a cowbell on the drum set would quickly drive you away

Then you have come to the right place
No one here is going to get in your face
This is a designated safe space
Where your cares will vanish without a trace

We’re racked and sacked with guilt
While our cities decay in filth
We wag our fingers and wring our hands
While greedy dictators gobble up our land

We came here to organize
But it feels better to agonize
And it pays more to demonize
In the end we had to fantasize
And by the way apologize

For who we are
For how we got here
For what was done before our time
And that the deck is stacked
Against the same people who are always left behind

I was once a teacher
I taught the smart and the dumb
The ones I could not reach
Grew up to be bums
The ones that did their homework
Landed dead end jobs
The one star student I had
Turned into a corporate snob
And I have seen popular girls
Turn into corpulent slobs!

This is a teachers lounge
We don’t serve no beer
If you’re looking for a good time
You don’t want to be here

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from UNDERGROUND BUNKUM, track released September 11, 2023
Composed by M.J. Berger
Performed by Gregorstan Wolforfox & The Dog Pack

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Gregorstan Wolforfox & The Dog Pack

The star of Underground Bunkum, lead singer Gregorstan Wolforfox, was born in obscurity. Where? He’s not sure – that’s why it is in obscurity! A meteoric rise, a precipitous fall, a rise from the ashes, and now this – UNDERGROUND BUNKUM front and center on the virtual stage. ... more

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