Name: Nanaimo Mill Shooting
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Written about the shooting incident at the Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo B.C., April 30, 2014 in which two men were injured and two slain, including Fred McEachern, who in his last minutes of life subdued and restrained the murderer.

Nanaimo Mill Shooting

from Short Life Of Trouble by Country Mouse

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Written about the shooting incident at the Western Forest Products mill in Nanaimo B.C., April 30, 2014 in which two men were injured and two slain, including Fred McEachern, who in his last minutes of life subdued and restrained the murderer.

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Oh, he lived in South Nanaimo
Worked the mill for many a year
All he owned earned with his backbone
A wife and daughter he held dear

Hard times fell, he fell harder
He lost his job, he lost his pay
He lost his home, he lost his family
He lost his mind, he lost his way

I’m going down this morning
To that old Nanaimo mill
Them old boys there in the office
Don’t wanna see me, but they will

Cuz I’m going down this morning
To that old Nanaimo mill
Since them old boys took my living
Well, I got some time to kill

He walked up to the mill that morning,
He shot poor Michael Lunn down
He didn’t stop, just kept on walking
He shot everyone he found

He found and shot poor Fred McEachern
Left him for dead and walked away
Two men were hit, but kept on living
One more was sent beneath the clay

Old Fred rose up and with his last strength
He took a chair and raised it high
He brought it down upon that killer
And held him there until he died

I’m going down this morning
To that old Nanaimo mill
Them old boys there in the office
Don’t wanna see me, but they will
Cuz I’m going down this morning
To that old Nanaimo mill
Since them old boys took my living
Well, I got some time to kill

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from Short Life Of Trouble, released May 9, 2022
Lyrics by Dwayne Strohm
Arranged and performed by Country Mouse
Lead vocal - Dwayne
Backing vocal - Ben

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Country Mouse Nanaimo, British Columbia

Country Mouse are four feral forest creatures brought together by a shared love of outsider music and the unlikely coincidence of each having a body to bury. They have conspired, collaborated, and shared shovels ever since. They create low tone psychedelic doom folk with Appalachian and punk rock over and undertones. They sound best in forests and look better in the dark. ... more

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