© Maria Dunn 2014

Arranged M. Dunn, S. Johnson, S. McDade

Inspired by Wendell Potter, a former marketing executive turned whistleblower in the US health care insurance industry. One of the catalysts for his change of heart was his visit to a health fair near his hometown where he realized the dire situation faced by so many uninsured or underinsured people.

(Book: Deadly Spin, © 2010, Wendell Potter Consulting LLC; Bloomsbury, NY).

Mr. Potter lived the high life, corporate jets and frills

Spinning health insurance, a balm to heal all ills

Until he went back home to the hills he’d always prized

At the health fair in Virginia, the scales fell from his eyes

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In the rain at Wise County stood people he had known

No money for the care to tend their weary bones

He saw a mother, a father, gran and grandpa too

Who never asked for anything their whole journey through

Come home, come home, home to the Fair

See your own ones waiting there

In the lines at Wise County, in the eyes of those folk

He recognized the pride, the hardscrabble hope

That gave a boy a better life, encouraged him through school

Nourished his mind, never mind a silver spoon

On that boy’s bright road, he found a golden job

Playing with the numbers, half knowing he played God

Playing with the lives of the people waiting there

Patient in the rain at the Wise County Fair

Now feeling like a low-life, waking from his sleep

Mr. Potter knew the only way their eyes he could meet

Was dig down to the rot, illuminate the dark

Bring to light the lies, breaking these hearts

Come home, come home, home to the Fair

See your own ones waiting there

Stand with your own ones waiting there

Maria Dunn  vocal, acoustic guitar

Jeff Bradshaw  steel guitar

Dawn Cross  harmony vocal

Shannon Johnson  violin

Solon McDade  upright bass

Dana Wylie  harmony vocal