Fixing America In 500 Words Or Less Chapter 30 GONE WITH THE WIND click here if song fails to play in 6 seconds Click Here for Music Video of this song                                   Heard ‘em say, “Get the wetback                                   Shoot to kill, ask no questions"                                   Idle hands, swift to mischief                                   Public patrol, guns a blazin’                                   From the hills of Mendocino                                   To fresh groves near Miami                                   Break our backs where you don’t want to                                   Tomatoes, grapes, strawberries                                          Don’t cry ‘bout where I’m goin’                                          Don’t ask me where I’ve been                                          Breezes of change are blowin’                                          Here today, gone with the wind                                   If all our exploited families                                   Went on home to Mexico                                   It'd ruin state economies                                   In the fields only weeds’d grow                                   From the dust of Oklahoma                                   Burnin' desert in Arizona                                   Sonoma vines of California                                   Fields of plenty, hands empty                                          No, don’t cry ‘bout where I’m goin’                                          Don’t ask me where I’ve been                                          Breezes of change are blowin’                                          Here today, gone with the wind                                   Hey, they call me Woody Guthrie                                   I went roamin’, an' I went ramblin’                                   ‘Cross a land made for you and me                                   Golden valleys, shinin’ ocean                                   The grapes of wrath are growin’                                   Here today, gone with the wind                                   Here today, gone, gone with the wind                                   You know, the lion an' the lamb                                   Gonna lay down together in a promised land                                   An’ the lyin’ leaders of Babylon’s whore                                   Ain’t gonna study war no more                                   Gonna bow to the sick an’ poor                                   Ain’t gonna study war no more *      * Loosely based on works by Woody Guthrie, Margaret Mitchell, John Steinbeck, Bob Dylan and Isaiah, prophet of Peace and Goodwill. Click Here to Go Back to Contents Click Here to eMail the Author Copyright © December 10th, 2019 by Richard Aberdeen. Copyright © December 10th, 2019 by Freedom Tracks Records. ( including from several earlier copyrights ) No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher and signed by the author. For inquiries, please contact Freedom Tracks Records.  The essays entitled Revolution and Revolution ~ Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced and distributed as desired.