The Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Hello again Mr. Penny Bank,
I have listened to the Toby Maguire song SO MUCH and have another song request that is close to my heart. Everybody I know makes fun of me for this, but I have an obsession with the Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. Would you be able to make a song about it? Not trying to mock the event or anything because it was devastating, but like a song in what happened?
Info:
- 2.2 million gallons of molasses at about 10 lb. per gallon
- 90 by 50 ft container
- 40 ft high wave of molasses careening through Boston at 35 mph
- the company was the United States Industrial Alcohol Company
- the tank collapsed on January 15, 1919
- the company painted the tank brown to cover up the leaks
- they had some dude who worked in finance (no knowledge or experience of any kind in engineering or architecture) lead the building team to make the tank with no advisers with more experience
- became the largest civil lawsuit in the state of Massachusetts and one of the largest in the country
(i recited all of this from memory)
If you don’t want to make the song I 1000% understand.
Please I’m Desperate,