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Lyrics

Lyrics to our newest album Sing While You Can are currently available on Bandcamp: https://blueribbonteacompany.bandcamp.com/album/sing-while-you-can

Some of our song lyrics with many full length song plays.  More posted with songs on our Bandcamp site.

  • What’s a Working Man to Do?
  • You Died Before Your Time
  • You Broke My Heart but You Eased My Mind
  • Why Do You Stay?
  • Who Will Break the Chain?
  • White Upon White
  • When I was a Young Man
  • When All You See is Blood
  • Wage Slave’s Lament
  • Transport
  • The Smell of Roses
  • The Same Old Story
  • The Rathdrum Prairie Refueling Depot Disaster
  • The Pride of Vinegar Flats
  • The Devil is Beating His Wife
  • The Big Tax Cut Deficit Flu
  • Standing in the White Angel Bread Line
  • St. James Hotel
  • Southbound Train
  • Song for Kathy
  • Some Mother’s Son
  • Shadows of Friends
  • Rolling River
  • Rainy Song
  • Raining by Night
  • Rachel Corrie
  • Memorial Day
  • Medicine Wheel
  • Living in My Neighborhood
  • Life is Painful, Death is Worse
  • Let Us Now Praise…
  • Juneau is a Rainy Town
  • Joliet Union
  • Going Nowhere
  • Fire and Ice
  • Fairmont 1969
  • Dugout Dick
  • Dreamland
  • Children of War
  • Betty Jane
  • Before the Fire
  • At the Dairy Queen
  • Another Good Day
  • America for Sale
  • A Sunset Song

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The Blue Ribbon Tea Company


Bill and Kathy Kostelec
“You’d be hard pressed to find many couples more devoted to creating music than Bill and Kathy Kostelec. In the folk music of their Blue Ribbon Tea Company, they tell stories that are impossible to dislike.” - The Pacific Northwest Inlander
“Bill Kostelec carries on the tradition of Woody Guthrie in his modern folk songs with strong lyrics and memorable melodies.” - Spokane Public Radio program guide
“Historic preservation at its finest.” - Jeff Echert, The Pacific Northwest Inlander
"Some of the best songwriting that I have heard.” - Norvel Trosst, Spokane Public Radio
"Awesome, awesome stuff.” - Dan Maher Northwest Public Radio
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