Songs

Watergate Watergate

It's too late to hide that Watergate

Johnny Dean has come to say

Tricky Dicky had his way

Tricky Dicky has to pay for Watergate

Now John Mitchell was Attorney General

When they planned that bugging caper well

And they knew they had us in a fix

When they used their bag of dirty tricks

Watergate Watergate

It's too late to hide that Watergate

Johnny Dean has come to say

Tricky Dicky had his way

Tricky Dicky has to pay for Watergate

When freedom rings will we hear the call

Or will our senators be standing in the hall

The time has come for all men to be free

Stand and cast your vote for liberty

Watergate Watergate

It's too late to hide that Watergate

Johnny Dean has come to say

Tricky Dicky had his way

Tricky Dicky has to pay for Watergate

Matter cannot be created

Nor can it be destroyed

Earth we are a spaceship

Hurtling through the void

Never before

In the course of my time

Have I known such thoughts

To traverse my mind

My mind's an illusion

Of freedom of flight

Hail to the heroes

Let each be self

Hail to the heroes

Let all be one

Never before

In the course of my time

Have I known such thoughts

To traverse my mind

In the mountains called the Catskills

In the past I call my youth

The people had no money

But they all knew the truth

They knew we stood for freedom

In every land on Earth

That we would fight the Fascists

With everything we’re worth

They moved into the cities

To build the tools of war

They told the conquered peoples

Their freedom we’d restore

Our soldiers crossed the oceans

And held our banner high

Our sailors, marines, and airmen

Helped freedom light the sky

When the war was over

And Hitler was destroyed

We too lost our freedom

We were all so paranoid

Tom Jefferson once told us

If democracy will survive

We must let the truth be known

To every man alive

How can the people cast their vote

If they don’t have the facts

The CIA has done more harm

Than the enemy’s attacks

We ally ourselves with tyrants

That our land might be free

At home we lose our freedom

To the cult of secrecy

Our nuclear umbrella

We cherish as a shield

Just look beyond the mushroom

Our slavery is revealed

Can Congress save our freedom

Will the people stand as one

Without the people’s right to know

Our slavery’s just begun

In the mountains called the Catskills

In the past I call my youth

The people had no money

But they all knew the truth

The Earth is our mother
Our father the Lord

The world is our spaceship
All welcome aboard

Journey we travel
Through time and space

What marvels we wonder
The whole human race

Over two hundred years
We have wandered this land

In search of a dream
Not yet at hand

A dream of creation
Equal and free

A dream of a world
Where all people can be

A world with no master
Not one a slave

Our dream still lives
In the home of the brave

Freedom for one
Without freedom for all

False prophets beware
No freedom at all

The Earth is our mother
All men are kin

Our journey forever
Let us begin

Man or machine
What do we mean

Is not in fact
The man a machine

Is not in fact
The master a slave

As he goes merrily
Digging our grave

Dropping our bombs
Pumping our oil

Fouling our air
Killing our soil

Now in our greed
We are killing the Earth

Buying our machines
For more than they're worth

Fresh air and freedom
Are better by far

Than everyone driving
Around in a car

Man or machine
What do we mean

Is not in fact
The man a machine

For a light in the dark

Mid the tyranny of truth

I have wandered the Earth

All the days of my youth

I have sailed on her oceans

And flown through her skies

I have froze on the roadside

With tears in my eyes

To the people I’ve spoken

All over this land

I can tell you my darling

It surely is grand

How the people united

In search of the the truth

Build now bridges between them

The old and the youth

Well you know now my baby

With curly blond hair

Well you know now my baby

So craven and fair

Well you know now my Earth girl

I’ll sing one for you

And I’ll sing one for your mama

My true love yes a roo

Now I’m riding the crest

Sailing on through

Rolling with my true love

Red White and Blue

Now I’m riding the crest

Sailing on through

Rolling with my true love

Red White and Blue

If I could only make some money

I'd buy a place for you

Fix it up all through and through

Paint it red white and blue

If I could only make some money

We could travel round the world

Sail a boat just like a bird

On the oceans of the Earth

Would you rather have a mountaintop

Or live down by the sea

Let the rhythm of our lives

Express the fact that we are free

Just to hold you in the morning

With your body next to mine

The fires of our unfolding

Sending flashes through my mind

If I could only make some money

We could run free on the land

Find a place to raise our kids

A place to make our stand

If I could only make some money

I'd buy a place for you

Fix it up all through and through

Paint it red white and blue

When they write our history

Let the people say

That we too cherished freedom

And would not as slaves obey

Let them tell the people

Of our struggle and our grief

Let it then be written

Of our ongoing belief

That freedom is the light

That will guide the human race

From the precipice of darkness

From the ultimate disgrace

If the world is to survive

As a home for you and me

We must help all peoples

In the struggle to be free

Look beyond your circle

Look beyond your town

Look beyond your country

It’s time to look around

Are we defending freedom

Or giving it away

If we don’t find the answer

Then everyone will pay

If others we enslave

Can our freedom we ensure

In a world filled with darkness

Can freedom’s light endure

The Earth belongs to no man

She’s the mother of us all

If we don’t stand for freedom

Then surely we will fall

Look beyond your circle

Look beyond your town

Look beyond your country

It’s time to look around

The man has got me playing

That old property game

I buy it I sell it

He owns it just the same

If I don't pay my taxes

He will take it away

Every year the bill goes up

And I have to pay

I've got the real estate blues

Real estate blues

Can't win but I lose

Real estate blues

The place was looking shabby

So I painted the front

They reappraised the neighborhood

And I took the brunt

I told them it's the same place

That I bought long ago

They said more people want it now

It's worth a lot more

I've got the real estate blues

Real estate blues

Can't win but I lose

Real estate blues

Let me tell you of my grandfather

Worked down in the mine

Had eight sons six that lived

Died before his time

They call it silicosis

Coal dust in the lungs

He didn't die in a cave in

But you know he sure died young

Spoke another language

From another land

Left the country of his birth

For a place to make his stand

Stood in the heart of the mountain

With his fellow countrymen

All brand new americans

With a whole new world to win

They call it silicosis

Coal dust in the lungs

He didn't die in a cave in

But you know he sure died young

I read it in the paper

Heard it on the radio

Saw it on the TV

They let Dick Nixon go

Ford gave him a pardon

He said I’ve changed my mind

I’m doing it for the country

We’ll put it all behind

I read it in the paper

Heard it on the radio

Saw it on the TV

They let Dick Nixon go

Ford seeks the nomination

Of the GOP

He told us he wouldn’t run

How honest can he be

I read it in the paper

Heard it on the radio

Saw it on the TV

They let Dick Nixon go

Let me serve as a bridge

For my brothers in the night

Let me stand as a beacon

Let me shed some light

On the nature of our battle

On the intent of our foe

Unity’s our only strength

You know he’s got the dough

He’s got guards in the streets

He’s got guards in the hall

He’s got cameras everywhere you look

Who’s gonna take the fall

If we don’t stand united

When the battle lines are drawn

Our union will have passed away

Our power will be gone

We want four days a week

And sixty dollars more

He wants to smash the union

He wants to shut the door

On the voice of the worker

In the councils of our land

On the right of each brother

To unite in his stand

Open up my focus

Expand my mind

Lend me your perception

I’ll be glad to lend you mine

Everyone is different

Everyone the same

Everyone has their own view

On the road we call life’s game

Walking down the highway

Walking down the road

Don’t know where I’m going

Got a heavy load

People all around me

Every which a way

Looking for direction

Seeking night and day

Open up my focus

Expand my mind

Lend me your perception

I’ll be glad to lend you mine

Everyone is different

Everyone's the same

Everyone has their own view

On the road we call life’s game

If we put our minds together

We can still carry the day

Mother Earth our home sweet home

Take a look at her and pray

Her waters are polluted

Her skies are filled with smog

People starve croplands destroyed

Greed seeking wealth through war

Open up my focus

Expand my mind

Lend me your perception

I’ll be glad to lend you mine

Everyone is different

Everyone’s the same

Everyone has their own view

On the road we call life’s game

Won't you sing me that song

About Freedom one more time

I can still remember when

You would sing it now and then

Won't you sing me that song

About Freedom one more time

Help me cast off

The chains of my fear

Won't you tell me once again

About those minutemen

And the shots they fired

That echoed round the world

From the green at Lexington

Till the battles all were won

Through the years of strife

The patriots endured

To a Yankee Doodle sound

They fought for hallowed ground

In their hearts they knew

That freedom would prevail

If the torch of liberty

Will be passed by you and me

If our children will be free

We must not fail

Won't you sing me that song

About Freedom one more time

I can still remember when

You would sing it now and then

Won't you sing me that song

About Freedom one more time

Help me cast off

The chains of my fear

Faith hope and charity

Don't go away from me

Faith hope and charity

Help me find the way

Been raised to praise the lord

To seek a just reward

Reason as my sword

Make it through the day

World knows I feel somehow

Our love is here and now

Making our sacred vow

Somewhere on the way

Faith hope and charity

Don't go away from me

Faith hope and charity

Help me find the way

The whole wide world it seems

Together with my dreams

Beyond the wildest schemes

How much is the pay

Walk softly in the night

Together make it right

Life's world is out of sight

What more can I say

How long will this keep going on

I’d really like to know

I’ve been so long without a job

I’m running out of dough

There’s no more unemployment checks

For me down at the line

They took my car and my TV set

I’m running out of time

They call it unemployment

In this land of you and me

I don’t care what you call it

It’s sure as hell not free

For everyone’s the loser

When a man is thrown away

There’s too much need to allow for greed

To waste our time this way

Wanderlust keep calling me

So much more i want to see

Other times other places

Can't forget people's faces

Coast to coast and north to south

Folks loving one another

Mother father sister brother

Wanderlust keep calling me

So much more I want to see

I want the sun with my breakfast

The stars at night

I want to move with the seasons

Like a bird in flight

There need be no rehearsal

Truth is universal

Everywhere along life's road

Wanderlust keep calling me

So much more I want to see

If there’s a problem

See Mister G

He’s always working

For you and me

From the beginning

Jack led the way

To fewer hours

To better pay

One of a million

One of a kind

One of eight hundred

Your friend and mine

At every challenge

Jack takes the lead

Working for labor

Seeking the need

So many times

I’ve heard them say

Mister G

Sure saved the day

One of a million

One of a kind

One of eight hundred

Your friend and mine

From the mountain of New England

From the Gulf of Mexico

To the coast of California

We travel to and fro

With my dream I am not empty

With my love I am for real

In my heart I feel no anguish

My mind I can reveal

I have ridden the lightning

Of the California sun

With the girl I love beside me

I’ve rode the river run

With my dream I am not empty

With my love I am for real

In my heart I feel no anguish

My mind I can reveal

In the faces of our children

You can see the world go round

In the voices of our fathers

Hear the truth resound

With my dream I am not empty

With my love I am for real

In my heart I feel no anguish

My mind I can reveal

Though this be a land of plenty

The rich are but a few

The poor are always with us

You say it’s all too true

With my dream I am not empty

With my love I am for real

In my heart I feel no anguish

My mind I can reveal

From the product of our labor

From the bounty of our soil

From our waters and our skies

We can’t depend on oil

With my dream I am not empty

With my love I am for real

In my heart I feel no anguish

My mind I can reveal

By solar from the sunshine

By harnessing the wind

By using all of God’s great gifts

We’ll hear freedom ring

Build me a jukebox

I'll sing you a song

Show me a highway

I'll take you along

Riding the rails

On the backside of life

Keeps getting better

Since you became my wife

I'll build you a house

If you'll make it a home

Stay in one place

If you don't want to roam

Rent us a boat

And we'll go for a sail

Ain't got no money

And don't want no jail

Darling our love

So much greater than one

You make a lightshow

Brighter than the sun

Build me a jukebox

I'll sing you a song

Show me a highway

I'll take you along

Never been to Nashville

Hills of Tennessee

Love my country’s music

Grand Old Oparee

Heard it on the radio

I was just a boy

Good old country music

Fills my heart with joy

Songs to win or lose

Unrequited love

Songs about our savior

His kingdom up above

Songs of bars, truckstops

Life the open road

Good old country music

Sure helps to pull the load

Never been to Nashville

Got those blues again

Just a displaced country boy

Looking for a friend

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Used on the jungles of Nam

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Come home to haunt our land

Who says it's right to pay for the poison

Who says it's wrong to smoke weed

They're using our taxes to poison the people

Is that what we need

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Used on the jungles of Nam

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Come home to haunt our land

There's freedom of speech freedom of worship

We're all allowed to chase dreams

Freedom of reason prevail I beseech you

All is not as it seems

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Used on the jungles of Nam

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Come home to haunt our land

The man even poisons my sweet marijuana

He says don't you know it's a crime

Don't smoke it, take warning, been sprayed with poison

Keeps blowing my mind

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Used on the jungles of Nam

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Come home to haunt our land

When prohibition shut down the country

The man never poisoned your booze

Freedom of reason prevail I beseech you

We've all got too much to lose

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Used on the jungles of Nam

Deadly Paraquat herbicide orange

Come home to haunt our land

Please pass the SALT

We don't need another war

Apple pie America

First grand super store

Like blind men riding tigers

On our journey round the sun

Please pass the SALT

The world has just begun

Please pass the SALT

We don't need another war

Please pass the SALT

We all know the score

With one hand on the plowshare

One hand on the sword

Please pass the SALT

Life's its own reward

Please pass the SALT

We don't need another war

Please pass the SALT

Please don't shut the door

Uncle Sam and Ivan

This time it's for real

Please pass the SALT

Let's all make a deal

Right wing reaction it’s the name of the game

Since things are going wrong someone must be to blame

They say Jimmy Carter’s not the one we need

He puts human rights ahead of corporate greed

Right wing reaction seeks the man on the horse

To lead us backwards to an older course

If we all line up count off to one

May not be freedom sure gets things done

Right wing reaction man has come this way before

When Adolf Hitler brought us the second war

Right wing reaction Hitler blamed the Jew

Right wing reaction they’re blaming me and you

They say decent wages drive the prices up

They make obscene profits we get a tin cup

Right wing reaction in the land of the free

If we’re not vigilant look out for World War III

Playing with atom bombs ICBMs

If they don’t blast you they’ll get you with the rems

Right wing reaction it’s the name of the game

Since things are going wrong someone must be to blame

Big Brother are you watching me

Can you see me on your color T.V.

Are you listening to my phone

Have you been inside my home

Big Brother are you watching me

Are you listening to my phone

Big Brother got a T.V. eye

Got satellites up in the sky

Taking pictures from outer space

Trying to photograph the human race

Big Brother are you watching me

Are you listening to my phone

Big Brother wrote the book on you

Knows if you're a member of the zoo

Knows your weight and your date of birth

Knows your politics and total worth

Big Brother are you watching me

Are you listening to my phone

Big Brother CIA

Mess around and they will make you pay

Big Brother FBI

Super Spy Super Lie

Big Brother are you watching me

Are you listening to my phone

No waste disposal

Safe for all time

They give you their reason

I’ll give you my rhyme

Excess radiation

Can mess with your genes

Mutations and cancers

What exposure means

We build safe reactors

That’s what they say

At Three Mile Island

The people did pay

Paid from their pockets

Paid with their health

Paid with some things

Much greater than wealth

We’re threatened with blackouts

Long gasoline lines

We shut down reactors

They play with our minds

No nukes are good nukes

Stop them today

A world full of actors

Only one play

American hero stand by the flag

American hero let me hear you brag

I will not be a slave

Kneeling down on freedom’s grave

Secret ballot every time

It’s the clapper in freedom’s chime

We the people brave and free

Standing tall sweet liberty

Joyful music freedom’s ring

Every person is a king

It’s the only song we know

From Sam Adams to G.I.Joe

Learned in battle sung in peace

May the music never cease

What price freedom what’s it worth

Stand for justice on the earth

Secret ballot strong free press

Legal recourse from duress

American hero stand by the flag

American hero let me hear you brag

I still know right from wrong

I know where I stand

American hero defender of our land

Waiting for pumpkins a lifetime it seems

Living with memories searching for dreams

Steadfast determined keep on losing ground

Stop waiting for pumpkins let’s turn this thing around

Growing corporate power wages in decline

Union busting lawyers playing with the mind

Instructing supervisors how to fake you out

They know without unity we all lose our clout

Big fancy cars are not power just an expensive way to go

Color TV is not freedom merely a view from below

They say we don’t really need the union

They tell us that we have got it made

They say if you stay with the union

You’ll never make executive junior grade

They say we’re no longer class conscious

They say we’re not really working class

When you see their truck on the highway

Remember who’s stepping on the gas

Hours we labor body and mind

Fill the corporate coffers do we receive in kind

Energy expended by free men in honey toil

Worth a whole lot more than all of OPEC’s oil

Last train to nowhere

Not waiting round for World War III

Last train to nowhere

Nowhere left for you and me

Be no way turn them round

Birds all on the wing

Be no way turn them round

Be you beggar be you king

Last train to nowhere

Not waiting round for World War III

Last train to nowhere

Nowhere left for you and me

Be no way turn them round

Birds all on the wing

Be no way turn them round

Be you beggar be you king

Ronnie Ray Gun

Ronnie Ray Gun gonna set us free

Ronnie Ray Gun

Ronnie Ray Gun gonna set us free

Free from overloading

On the day you lose your job

You’ll be free from stealing

When there’s nothing left to rob

Free from unemployment

When they send you off to war

Free from money worries

When they won’t lend you no more

Ronnie Ray Gun

Ronnie Ray Gun gonna set us free

Ronnie Ray Gun

Ronnie Ray Gun gonna set us free

You’ll be free from welfare

When they throw you out the line

You’ll be free from hassles

When you finally lose your mind

Free from overcrowding

When we’re no longer around

Free from exploitation

When they put you in the ground

What you say

Heard it all before

Same old simple melody

Telling us amour

Singing songs silently

Singing the blues

Freedom America

You’ve got to live life win or lose

What you say

Road of no return

Riding life’s highway

So much more to learn

Echoing fantasies

Corporate network news

Real life realities

I got the San Francisco blues

Play money payday play money payday

Play money payday dues playing blues

No satisfaction right wing reaction

Inept inaction play money blues

Play money payday play money payday

Play money payday dues paying blues

Can’t get a first house can’t pay the rent

Can’t show a damn thing for what we’ve spent

Play money payday play money payday

Play money payday dues paying blues

Don’t look down sideways long side the road

Can’t even stand still play money pay load

Reading and writing driving a truck

Gainful employment your hope or your luck

Songs won’t sell toothpaste or dish soap

Just not commercial still I have hope

Songs with no sequins hurting inside

Nights filled with madness no time to hide

Crosses are burning once more in our land

We seem to believe there’s a new master plan

Race with the Russians top of the hill

Building bombs faster quicker to kill

Won’t take no crap Tehran or Bagdad

Mess with the oil know about bad

Mass unemployment rumors of war

We lost one in Asia let’s even the score

Look to the present look to the past

Look to the future how long can it last

People are hungry no place to live

We’re stretching the fabric there’s not enough give

Nuclear madness losing our grip

Playing with A-bombs better not slip

Stop the commies back the junta let’s defend the rich

Never mind the squads of death or nuns found in a ditch

Forget about Vietnam forget about the Shah

We’ve found a place El Salvador where our word is the law

Screw the needy help the greedy

Spend it on defense

Get the government off our backs

Just makes dollars and cents

Million dollar tanks ten thousand dollar bombs

Reactivate the battleships bow our heads for psalms

Freedom for big business means jobs for the working man

Tax breaks for the wealthy it’s all in Ronnie’s plan

Screw the needy help the greedy

Spend it on defense

Get the government off our backs

Just makes dollars and cents

New bombers for the air force more guided missles too

We’ll cut down on the welfare charge more at the zoo

Increase college tuition shut down the empty schools

Uneducated work for less they make much better tools

Screw the needy help the greedy

Spend it on defense

Get the government off our backs

Just makes dollars and cents

Time stood still a moment

In wonder of the past

Before Hiroshima

Now every day’s the last

Arm in armageddon

The Bear and Uncle Sam

England France China India

How soon Pakistan

Cavemen left their paintings

Dinosaurs their bones

American Visa Mastercharge

Flush toilets and pay phones

Soviet ICBMs

Satellites in space

Polaris Sac Minute men

Space Shuttle new arms race

Ever growing arsenals

Increasingly precise

First strike capability

Insane doomsday device

Cavemen left their painting

Dinosaurs their bones

American Visa Mastercharge

Flush toilets and pay phones

Driving to the poorhouse

In a car built in Japan

Selling out to pay for oil

Supply side masterplan

Ripping off our resources

Ripping off the poor

Children going hungry

Building up for war

Give the savings to the rich

Big buisiness will save the day

Forget the crash of twenty-nine

Let Ronnie have his way

Open up our public lands

Unleash our corporate greed

Dissipate our heritage

Without regard to need

Export food and resources

Import foreign oil

Price the people out of their homes

Pay less for their toil

Space shuttle rocket plane

Re using you again

Means money saved

Putting more eyes in space

More ears what nose in space

From every hiding place

We want to know

Tent city universe

To farthest star transverse

Each day roll round

Ascending step by step

Beyond all boundaries yet

From every TV set

With eagles soar

We’re gonna cut your taxes

We’ll keep you safe from crime

We’ll build up our defenses

It won’t cost you a dime

We’ll stop paying folks to live

We’ll cut out needless waste

We won’t harm the truly poor

You’d find it in poor taste

What is the price

People gone to war

Helicopters spraying death

Rape El Salvador

Genocidal homicide

Death squads in the night

Assassinating men of truth

Saying wrong is right

Money talks bullshit walks

At least that’s what they say

Get the law and lots of bread

You’re bound to have your way

The agency employs armed force

Lawyers and deceit

Working on us one by one

Planning our defeat

You and me our union

We all pay the price

Our strength keeps eroding

Each time they toss the dice

The time has come to choose anew

Someone to hold our flag

If we don’t use our hearts and minds

We’re left holding the bag

Churchill said there are no men

Born larger than life

Only folks like you and me

Who rise in times of strife

Our only strength arm in arm

In our unity

No one holds the lucky charm

It’s every you and me

Unemployment is worse than inflation

It tears us right down to the soul

It rips us it rapes us our reason forsakes us

It’s putting us all in a hole

You can’t create freedom with terror

You can’t defend right when it’s wrong

Don’t rob and abuse us there’s danger you’ll lose us

You’ll be left standing all alone

Hold onto the bright flame of freedom

Use it to show us the way

To work with each other sister and brother

A tax cut is needed you say

If we give the wealthy more money

Will they really create us more jobs

Or will they just use it cheat and abuse it

Is it just a new way to rob

The strength of our nation is people

Working with bodies and minds

We use them or lose them dare we abuse them

We’re leaving our greatest strength behind

The threat to our freedom keeps growing

Both from the left and the right

Your mandate you’ve exceeded a four day week’s what’s needed

We’ll need every person in our fight

Union solidarity fighting for each life

Class warfare exploding labor strife

Troops in every city countryside and town

Union solidarity hallowed common ground

Hallowed ground hallowed ground

In common hallowed ground

One common hallowed ground

Good planet hallowed ground

Every life is counted spaceship Mother Earth

Union Solidarity freedom is the worth

Let the torch be lighted let every person see

Union solidarity defend liberty

Hallowed ground hallowed ground

In common hallowed ground

One common hallowed ground

Good planet hallowed ground

Union solidarity fighting for each life

Class warfare exploding union labor strife

Troops in every city countryside and town

Union solidarity hallowed common ground

Hallowed ground hallowed ground

In common hallowed ground

One common hallowed ground

Good planet hallowed ground

We all built the company here we are today

Owners and the unions they want to send away

Owners gave their money unions gave much more

Owners want to break our ranks throw us out the door

Don’t be enslaved lousy chump change

Don’t go away to a home on the range

Stand with the unions we hold the common ground

Union solidarity we won’t be turned around

I love rock and roll I love rock and roll

Tutti frutti teddy bear I love rock and roll

Some folks sing the blues some folks songs have soul

Some folks dance to discotheque I love rock and roll

I love rock and roll I love rock and roll

Some folks dance to discotheque I love rock and roll

Rocking boogie beat got me on my feet

Pretty baby dance with me I love rock and roll

I love rock and roll I love rock and roll

Pretty baby dance with me I love rock and roll

Bopping at the hop rocking round the clock

Tutti frutti teddy bear I love rock and roll

I love rock and roll I love rock and roll

Tutti frutti teddy bear I love rock and roll

I love rock and roll I love rock and roll

Tutti frutti teddy bear I love rock and roll

Ray Gun in the White House

Poor folks on the spot

Ten percent of nothing

Won’t buy you a pot

Ten percent of nothing

Three years in a row

Ten percent of nothing

Won’t make savings grow

Tax breaks for the wealthy

Cut backs for the poor

More warships and weaponry

Chrysler we insure

Cut back on jobless benefits

Cut back on the jobs

Cut back social security

Tough break working slobs

Brother can you lend me sister can you lend me

Brother can you lend me a hand

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Have you got a nickel or some spare change

Trying to make a dollar sure seems strange

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Brother can you lend me sister can you lend me

Brother can you lend me a hand

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Laid off my Brother laid off my dad

Shut down the factory tell me things ain't bad

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Brother can you lend me sister can you lend me

Brother can you lend me a hand

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Huddled in Doorways walking the street

Sea of hungry strangers faces of defeat

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Brother can you lend me sister can you lend me

Brother can you lend me a hand

All the years of labor working for the man

Brother can you lend me a hand

Cool Joe cool I can still remember when

Cool Joe cool lived to play again

Cool Joe cool hard nosed comeback trail

Cool Joe cool let the good times roll

Cool Joe cool Reno’s on the line

Cool Joe cool bet my one track mind

Cool Joe cool come to play the game

Cool Joe cool winning is your fame

Don’t go down that road again

Don’t dance to the same old tune

Atom bombs won’t buy you peace

They’ll only buy you ruin

Building up the CIA

Won’t help people know

Multi billion military

Won’t help freedom grow

Heartbeat from eternity

Like water in the wind

Poor folks standing in the cold

This madness has to end

Thirty hour four day week

Jobs for all is what we seek

Truth and justice common sense

Strong free people best defense

Don’t go down that road again

Don’t dance to the same old tune

Atom bombs won’t buy you peace

They’ll only buy you ruin

What celestial transmission O proud naked ape

Resist global malfunction no galactic escape

Plowshares from sabres old as mankind

Given freedom and justice do we have enough time

Warsaw or Moscow London or Prague

New York or Frisco bumps on a log

Singing sweet songs of freedom in the land of my birth

Be you big time or small time what matter your worth

Some folks are wealthy while others are poor

One thing sweet reason we all must endure

Excess radiation won't ask you your name

High noon at midnight by rocket by plane

In the boss's dream

We all disappear

He puts it in his wallet

We get it in the ear

Automation’s here to stay

Bought and sold and thrown away

Live to work another day
Bought and sold and thrown away

We just need the cash

We just need the cash

High tech schizophrenia

We just need the cash

Day glow neon Nazis

Right wing flashing trash

High tech schizophrenia

We just need the cash

In the boss's dream

We all disappear

He puts it in his wallet

We get it in the ear

It’s time to organize

Stop jacking us around

It’s time to organize

Let’s get this off the ground

It’s time to organize

We’ve got less than a year

It’s time to organize

Who’s going to guard the rear

We want a vote

Our union’s on the line

We want a vote

This time we’re of one mind

We want a vote

Won’t ride your railroad

We want a vote

Won’t ride your railroad

American dream displaced by fantasy

Less jobs more guns how sweet it used to be

Think you our world can’t lose its mind once more

Truth light the way love freedom peace not war

American dream displaced by fantasy

Less jobs more guns how sweet it used to be

Pre CIA gangbusting FBI

A world half free love mom and apple pie

American dream displaced by fantasy

Less jobs more guns how sweet it used to be

Manhattan’s bomb forever marked in time

High tech mass death beyond all reason’s rhyme

American dream displaced by fantasy

Less jobs more guns how sweet it used to be

Think you our world can’t lose its mind once more

Truth light the way love freedom peace not war

High tech low tech

Black brown yellow red neck

Looking for a pay check

Mean no man no harm

Stand in line don’t mill around

We’ll decide who holds the ground

Straighten up you silly clown

Mean no man no harm

White collar blue collar

Red white and blue collar

Who’s holding my dollar

Mean no man no harm

Offense defense

Pre Atomic nonsense

Inhuman expense

Mean no man no harm

Call it us call it them

We’re all back on that train again

Big brother strong rearm

Mean no man no harm

They’re first We’re first

Second no, worse than worst

Worse than worse than worse than worst

Mean no man no harm

Made in U.S.A.

We want it made in U.S.A.

Who’s got it made in U.S.A.

We want to make it in the U.S.A.

We’re gonna make it in the U.S.A.

Make it better in the U.S.A.

Buy and sell it in the U.S.A.

Union labor made

Flipside renegade

Wage control price increase

De control thought police

Time proven strength

Seniority rules

Stand up for seniority

Kissing ass is for fools

Union labor corporate power

Contract crossing time

General bid seniority

Yours ours and mine

Time proven strength

Seniority rules

Stand up for seniority

Kissing ass is for fools

Star wars from heaven new Death Valley days

First strike imbalance we all know who pays

Workers writers prelates all fall

Archbishops assassin death’s clarion call

United States taxes United States men

United States freedom our means is our end

Star Wars from heaven zap zap blip blip

User free hardware peoples spaceship

Birds under water birds under land

Birds aboard bombers birds out of hand

United States justice United States peace

United States madness this arms race must cease

Star Wars from heaven tax tomorrow today

Our future can’t vote when we’re older they’ll pay

Massive deficit budget holding interest rates high

People need housing unable to buy

United States taxes United States men

United States freedom our means is our end

Star Wars from heaven Death’s video game

Rule of assassin our world’s gone insane

Deficit war lords rape plunder and spoil

Death merchants despoiling air water and soil

United States justice United States peace

United States madness this arms race must cease

Star Wars from heaven madman mind's eye

We’ll take out their forces give them death from the sky

Take out their forces take out their town

Take out their country with no money down

United States taxes United States men

United States freedom our means is our end

Star Wars from heaven count every vote cast

Taxing the future in search of the past

Death rays and dollars won’t make it rhyme

Reject World War Three vote for reason in time

United States justice United States peace

United States madness this arms race must cease

Rich folks buy Mercedes

Economics before state

Six pack joes buying Japanese

America tempting fate

America tempting fate

America tempting fate

Six pack joes buying Japanese

America tempting fate

Onshore Offshore

Money’s just a game

Export American jobs

Say I’m not to blame

Foreclosed farms dying towns

Displaced workers make the rounds

Homeless hungry unemployed

American labor won’t be destroyed

Bottom line all the way

Time to weigh the cost

Count all that’s been discarded

Count skills unused and lost

Count future generations

Count everything involved

Count dreams and aspirations

Potentials unresolved

America’s vanishing dream

America’s vanishing dream

Hard times over one shoulder

Life living in a vanishing dream

What price new order

Terror friend or foe

Half a million young

armed forces to go

Half a million young

Astride the desert sand

Bush league mad bomber

Hard by the Holy Land

Why Kuwait why not Tibet

Aim and open fire

Big oil’s bullshit

Armed forces for hire

How many casualties

People free and brave

Gas germs and poison

Baghdad’s open grave

Georgie ran the CIA

Gorby ran the KGB

Truth stranger than fiction

Running you and me