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I Won't Bloody Buy It
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I've spent my whole life not buying things, in pursuit of human rights for various struggling peoples. Grapes, Nestle's, nukes, South Africa....here's an update.
folk political satire
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Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
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Peak #453
Peak in subgenre #121
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October 29, 2012
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MP3 6.2 MB • 160 kbps • 5:24
Story behind the song
People use targeted boycotts to bring the combined pressure of millions of people on a recalcitrant company or nation blocking progress and exploiting/oppressing customers, resource-rich third world nations, etc. etc. But sometimes people balk when it affects them personally, or when they think it does. We have to look at our own complicity too. Don't we?
Lyrics
When I was with Gandhi I didn’t buy British goods Nor during our own revolution wouldn’t wanta support those hoods Boycotted buses in Montgomery For freedom I would walk or even hitch And when they made sexist t-shirts I boycotted Abercrappie and b*** Nestles replacing breast milk, mothers being bilked Our health being pushed aside They fill us up with pesticide And GE is so into nukes, I ask you When they contaminate you Do you think boycotting is for kooks? But yet you say it’s no crime You’re not joinin’ in this time I tell you Chorus: It’s the same as serving Gallo wine It’s the same as playing Sun City, Cross the apartheid line Like buying Exxon after Valdez Or BP after the Deep Horizon – please! Chilean grapes under Pinochet Monsanto, Agent Orange - nyet It would turn me Tourette – Tourette! So…I won’t bloody buy it So why even try it? I’m not for it, I won’t ignore it You shouldn’t sell it And I won’t buy it Even if it’s half price, no dice It’s too bloody bloody, and it’s not nice And that’s why I don’t buy Ahava Because in Palestine they kill the dream OK I don’t buy beauty cream especially if it’s Ahava, don’t you see Because it comes from the Dead Sea Made in an illegal colony I’ve also cut way back on buying bulldozers from Caterpillar yeah Due to their demolitions, that’s how their dozers are applied And also when I buy hummus I make sure I’m not funding apartheid Supporting colonizing felons If it is that’s why I’m yellin’ As I child I ate no grapes From social conscience there is no escape So I decline to buy the fruit of the vine From stores that ignore Immokalee It’s the least that I can do… Can’t you see But yet you say it’s no crime You’re not joinin’ in this time I tell ya CHORUS No of course I’d never boycott Hindus or Jews But justice I always choose I boycott states that seize another’s land Till there’s nothing left to lose Especially if the farm workers ask me to I can do without whatever’s dripping blood – wouldn’t you? Small suffering, won’t you join me in sitting on our bucks, this situation sucks But we’ve got one shot, so why notboycott And while we’re at it won’t you sign my petition, send off a letter, make a call Show up in a downpour, or at the Corporate hall, sit at the factory gate Otherwise – CHORUS
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