Fixing America In 500 Words Or
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Chapter 30
GONE WITH THE WIND
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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.
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