GONE WITH THE WIND
[ country/folk-rock ]

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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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