Gandy dancer is a slang term for workers who maintained railroads in North America. For each stroke, a worker would lift his gandy (a long handled tool) and force it into the ballast to create a fulcrum, then throw himself sideways using the gandy to check his full weight (making the "huh" sound recorded in the lyrics below) so the gandy would push the rail toward the inside of the curve. Even with all impacts from the work crew timed correctly, any progress made in shifting the track would not become visible until after a large number of repetitions.
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Rhythm was necessary for this process, both to synchronize the manual labor, and to maintain the morale of workers whose exertions produced only a minuscule effect; hence "gandy dancers". The songs sung in this occupation have been recognized as a major influence on later blues music
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Rhythm was necessary for this process, both to synchronize the manual labor, and to maintain the morale of workers whose exertions produced only a minuscule effect; hence "gandy dancers". The songs sung in this occupation have been recognized as a major influence on later blues music
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Grand Ledge High School is basicly a shit show, teachers are constantly preaching to the kids about their bonds to tax the community so they can revert all of the changes they made back in 2009. Also, the school wants to build a new swimming pool and fill their current one in with concrete so it can be a "community walking track" even though they have 2 already.
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The students are constantly vaping in the bathroom, classrooms, halls that dont have cameras, or in the parking lot. All the girls carry around pepper spray so they can "defend themselves", but they mostly threaten boys with it when they piss them off. The teachers dont give a fuck if your passing or failing, as long as you are quite and on your phone your fine. If there is ever a sub the students take it as a personal challenge to get sent to the office, argue about their phones, or blow vapor into the middle of the class so the substitute has to tell "who did that"
The girls act like feminists and the boys act masochistic. The blacks act like hoodlums and the whites act like blacks. The weirdos act like "le epic gamers" and the "cool kids" act like assholes
Rando- Hey what school do you go to
Cool kid- Grand Ledge High School
Rando- oh shit do you the kid me and nigga kicked the shit out of yesterday
Cool kid- yeah he said he beat your ass
These are the kinds of retarded things that happen at GLHS
Cool kid- Grand Ledge High School
Rando- oh shit do you the kid me and nigga kicked the shit out of yesterday
Cool kid- yeah he said he beat your ass
These are the kinds of retarded things that happen at GLHS
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