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SONG OF THE COMMON PEOPLE We are not a national football hero we’re not a big-time Hollywood star We’re not among the wealthy or the famous and have never known the taste of caviar We are the everyday working woman and the ordinary working man We don’t always do what we think right but, by God, we do the best that we can We are the common people and lately it seems we have no common voice Our vote that one time seemed to matter is drowned in shallow sound-bite voice The corporation lobby holds the power Benedict Arnold’s in the Capitol tower We can’t ignore your gilded greed much longer we love our children, we have no choice We want education with morality for our youth we want health care and a decent job And from the future of our children’s children we want corrupt politicians to cease to rob You claim your primary interest is our protection from terrorism of a foreign shore But you ignore problems within our own borders disregard our sick and hinder our poor The price for basic services keeps going up you make no proposal for our health care You pollute the planet of our children’s future building weapons from funds that are not there You sing your twisted praise to Jesus while ignoring the people’s basic diseases And bow to your big-oil, world bank war-machine as if this somehow, our Creator pleases Now, you can talk about Marx and Engels and the unsound theories of Adam Smith And you can blend your New World Order into a synchronized hypocritical synthetic myth But this lesson comes from a prophet long ago who went up against established institution If you don’t uphold interests of the common people there will be revolution but no true solution 
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