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“Mary doesn’t necessarily mean Mary, mother of Jesus,” he continued. ‘Go down’ doesn’t necessarily mean as in a 69 sense of the word… it can also mean go down as in go down in history, your own ascent. The chorus is written very tongue in cheek of course. Speaking to Mastodon’s Brann Dailor on a recent livestream, the singer explained: “There are multiple layers in the lyrics that it might be important for people to understand. “But besides all the stardom, all we got was blues.” Most striking lyrically is the chorus: “You go down like Holy Mary/Mary on a cross”, a seemingly provocative mash-up of Biblical and sexual imagery.įorge himself has been loathe to strip away the mystery, though he admitted one his daughter’s friends had heard the song was “perverted”. “We were speeding together down the dark avenues,” sang Forge. The song’s lyrics are ambiguously evocative.

It was only when Papa Nihil made his 21st Century reappearance with the band – declaring himself to be Papa Emeritus Zero – that Mary On A Cross and another song, Kiss The Go-Goat, were exhumed and re-released as the 2019 single Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic.

Despite being fronted by a swaggering, handsome clergyman known as Papa Nihil, this groovy 60s incarnation of Ghost failed to set the world on fire. It also propelled the band into the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time, subsequently becoming the band’s most listened-to song, currently sitting pretty with more than 210 million streams on Spotify.Īccording to the band’s own mythology, Mary On A Cross dates back to 1969, when an early version of Ghost dipped its fingers in the psychedelic waves of the dying decade. It blew up and before long there were more than 300,000 TikTok vids using either the original or alternative iteration of the track. In September 2022, a TikTok user uploaded a slowed-down, reverb-heavy version of the three-year-old song to soundtrack a compilation of Stranger Things scenes. ONA’s mission is to advocate for nursing, quality health care and healthy communities.And so it proved with viral success of Mary on a Cross.

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We are a professional association and labor union which represents more thanġ6,000 nurses and allied health workers throughout the state. The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) is the state’s largest and most influential nursing It’s also home to Southern Oregon’s only neonatal intensive There have been nationally recognized for their heart and stroke care, orthopedic services,Ĭancer care and diabetes care. Dignity and voice on the job so health professionals’ expertise is respectedĪs members of ONA, these workers will have the solidarity and support of more than 16,000 health professionals across the state, including the 925 RNs at ARRMC.Īsante Rogue Regional Hospital is a Level 2 trauma center.Fair pay and benefits to recruit and retain workers.Appropriate staffing levels to fully care for patients.My colleagues and I are ready to begin negotiating a contract that’s grounded in the best interests of workers and patients.” “And I’ve also seen how our RN colleagues have been able to fight for themselves and our patients because they have a union. “Since I started at ARRMC, I’ve seen management make more and more decisions that put profits ahead of our patients,” Cheyanne said. With their union officially certified, this unit will now begin the process of negotiating a contract with hospital management.

Now, we will have a real voice to advocate for the dignity and working conditions that will allow us to deliver the best care for our community.” “We worked together across every department to build for this victory. “We are thrilled,” said Cheyanne Laber, an ultrasound technologist who has worked at ARRMC for 4 years. The new union includes radiologic technologists, licensed practical nurses (LPNs), respiratory therapists, physical therapy assistants, occupational therapy assistants and surgical technicians.

(Medford, Ore.)-More than 250 health care technical workers at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center overwhelmingly voted to join the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) in a vote certified by the National Labor Relations Board late Friday night. Health Care Technical Workers At Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center Vote to Join Oregon Nurses Association - 06/09/23

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