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Remembrance

1.     I’m Hezekiah from down the road
And I’ve come to tell you cause you should know
They plowed me under yesterday
Now me and my family are going away
Them rich boys up in Washington
Never tended a field ‘til the break of dawn
They’re gonna make more money without a crop
So I’m going to join a union shop
            
CH:    White man, black man, mexical
    We all went north when the land went fallow
    It’s move to live and I don’t mind
    With my share cropping shadow close behind

2.     I left Tennessee on 51
Heading to St. Lou in the setting sun
    With Father Coughlin on the radio
    Screaming a sermon ‘bout the CIO
    Now a thing’s a thing and a man’s a man
    And a farm without a farmer is just some land
    Dirt’s got value, not our lives
    So we’re pushin’on just to survive

CH:    Repeat

3.    Many many years from now
The books will tell of the fields unplowed
And the families that were bought and sold
Will have their stories go untold

CH: Repeat