Crystal Lineberry, East Rowan
♦ I did not write the song “O’Salisbury, O’Salisbury” (below) to mock Salisbury. I did not write it out of bitterness. I wrote it out of truthfulness and that it needs to be said. If you ask the older generation who lived in the county for 40 years or so, they will tell you they saw it coming. It’s the Salisbury families or people who couldn’t see past their own selfishness that made Salisbury a mess.
Hardly a day goes by without seeing violence there. Saturday a woman reported she was robbed at knifepoint on the 900 block of Richard Street. Being threatened by a knife is frightening.
No one I know schedules anything in any Salisbury restaurants anymore. Albemarle and Concord get every date, birthday party, anniversary dinner, back from overseas homecoming, etc. Who wants to go out and celebrate only to be mugged or shot at?
To the tune of O’Christmas Tree:
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
Your streets are full of violence.
Your leaders seem
to be clueless.
Your Fibrant plan
turned n’to a mess.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
Your streets are full of violence.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
You need help beyond measure.
Only God
can save you now.
Unless you’ve gone
too far somehow.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
You need help beyond measure.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
Your streets are full of color
Caution tape
and trespass signs.
Red and blue lights
and chalk outlines.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
Your streets are full of color.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
You fill my heart with sadness.
I pray for you
each and every day.
I pray you’ll find
another way.
O’ Salisbury, O’ Salisbury
You feel my heart with sadness.
