Dana Lyons is an American

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musician, who wrote and performed the 1996 comedic folk song "Cows With Guns".

Life

He was born in

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, grew up in

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, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982. His

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song "Our State Is a Dumpsite", became the subject of a proposal in the

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legislature during the 1980s to be made the official state song. He went on to perform music for the environmental group

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and to record an album of children's music, ''At Night They Howl at the Moon'' before releasing the song "Cows With Guns," on the album of the same title, in 1996. Lyons is the author of the children's book ''The Tree'' (2002).

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penned the foreword and David Danioth provided the illustrations. Lyons currently resides in

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Career

Lyons has toured in 46 of the 50 American states, around the East Coast of Australia and across Ireland, England, New Zealand, Mexico, Kazakhstan and Siberia. Lyons has performed at

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and the Harley Davidson Festival in

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. Two of Lyons’s songs have been made into illustrated books: ''Cows With Guns'', published by Penguin, and ''The Tree'', published by Illumination Arts.

Discography

*''Animal'' (1988) *''I'd Go Anywhere to Fight for Oil to Lubricate the Red, White and Blue'' (1991) *''WTO Disco'' *''Turn of the Wench'' (1992) *''At Night They Howl at the Moon: Environmental Songs for Kids'' with

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(1993) *''Cows with Guns'' (1997) – No. 32 Australia *''Ride the Lawn'' (2004) *''Circle the World'', songs and stories with Jane Goodall (2004) *''Three Legged Coyote'' (2009) *''The Great

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'' (2014)

Bibliography

*''Cows with Guns'' illustrated by Jeff Sinclair, 1998 *''The Tree'' illustrated by David Danioth, 2002

References

External links

Official site

Dana Lyons on Myspace
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