Fixing America In 500 Words Or Less


Chapter 20 ~ Bonus Song

ANTHEM
Is Drought Just Another Nail
in the Family Farmer Coffin?

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    We were bold in our innocence, brave wild and free
    We had our own rhyme and reason of how things were to be
    We wanted our freedom and shot way past the moon
    Now we still sing our anthem but our heart's out of tune

    We rode Ezekiel’s wheel---Elijah’s chariot through the fire
    From sea to shining sea we filled up our heart's desire
    We plowed fields of plenty under freedom’s great rainbow
    Oh, why did you leave me, where did you ever go?

    America, America, our greed lies exposed
    Inner cities are wasteland, the heartland is foreclosed
    Is the great harvest ending?--These cruel winds of change blow
    Oh America, America, we'll reap what we sow

    We rode Ezekiel’s wheel---Elijah’s chariot through the fire
    From sea to shining sea we filled up our heart’s desire
    We plowed fields of plenty under freedom’s great rainbow
    Oh why did you leave me, where did you ever go?

    Is the great harvest ending?--These cruel winds of change blow
    America, why did you leave me, where did you ever go? *

* Inspired by Frank Johnson; family farmer, Jasper, Alabama.




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