David Ortiz shot in Dominican Republic

justgladtobehere · Jul 24, 2019

Attack on David Ortiz inspires musical tribute - The Boston Globe

JFK, MLK, RFK, and David Americo Ortiz Arias.

When the news reached Linda Marks that David Ortiz had been shot, she “had that same sinking feeling in my heart’’ as she did as a young girl when the Rev. Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, she said.

A lifelong Red Sox fan and longtime fixture on the Greater Boston music scene, Marks reacted to the near-fatal attack as songwriters often do to work through their emotions. She began composing.

“It shook me to the core,” Marks said. “It had such an internal impact that the song started coming out of me as soon as I heard the news.”
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The song serves both as a tribute to Ortiz and a ballad about the bloody toll of gun violence against some of the nation’s most revered figures. Her lyrics evoke memories of Dion’s classic “Abraham, Martin, and John,” about the assassinations of President Lincoln, Reverend King, President John F. Kennedy, and his brother, Robert, who was running for president when he was murdered.

“Martin, Robert, and John colored my childhood, serving the greater good,” Marks sings. “Now David, Big Papi to most. He is a good man. I just don’t understand. Why do we shoot our heroes?”
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That lady is so fucking Massachusetts.

wicked · Jul 24, 2019

I heard it earlier. I figured a stoolie would’ve done something like this.

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