Surveyor
Shellac * Track #9 On Dude Incredible
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Todd Trainer & Bob Weston & Steve AlbiniWrited by
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The ninth track on Shellac’s Dude Incredible, “Surveyor” is one of multiple songs on the album to deal with and take its name from the concept of surveying, specifically as it has to do with Colonial America. As the songs demonstrate, almost all of the founding fathers of the United States were surv...
Surveyor Lyrics
Founding fathers
Meander Virginia
Western expansion
Frontier settled with order
Zenith, sector
William Clark was a surveyor
Sleep in trees
Chain mounted surveyor
Ranging transit
Chain, by chain, by chain, by chain, by
Four rods, 22 yards
One cricket pitch
Four rods, 22 yards
80 per mile
Four rods, 22 yards
60 foot six
Four rods, 22 yards
Gunter's chain
Zenith, sector
All of them surveyors
"The want of accurate Maps of the Country which has hitherto been the Scene of War, has been a great disadvantage to me. I have in vain endeavored to procure them and have been obliged to make shift, with such sketches as I could trace from my own Observations . . . ."
- G. Washington
Surveyor Q&A
Who wrote Surveyor's ?
Surveyor was written by Todd Trainer & Bob Weston & Steve Albini.
Who produced Surveyor's ?
Surveyor was produced by Todd Trainer & Bob Weston & Steve Albini.