Here it is 40 years later, and it once again holds significance. Some of you, no doubt, will recognize it. A lot of you may even have been alive when it was conceived. Discuss, if you wish.
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope.
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope.
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later, some got slaves to gather riches.
(chorus)
But still from near and far, to seek America,
They came by thousands, to court the wild,
And she just patiently smiled, and bore a child
To be their spirit, and guiding light.
(The world supposedly holds no love for the US, yet still they come...STILL THEY COME!)
And once the ties with the crown had been broken,
Westward in saddle and wagon it went.
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean,
Many the lives which had come to an end.
While we bullied, stole and bought a homeland,
We began the slaughter of the red man.
chorus
The blue and grey they stomped it,
They kicked it just like a dog.
And when the war over,
They stuffed it just like a hog.
And though the past has it's share of injustice,
Kind was the spirit in many a way.
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey.
These protectors and friends are you and I, my brothers and sisters. Here, there be monsters. Time to awaken!
Myc
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