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.


           


Copyright © 2005 by Richard Aberdeen
Copyright © 2006 by Freedom Tracks Music

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