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Corporation Plow
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"This song was recorded live with Brian Ritchie on acoustic bass and me twiddlin' my thumbs with a harmonica rack on my neck for a straight harp sound. I wanted a stark arrangement that would stand out from the already minimal sound of the CD.
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...somewhere between Shane McGowen and Bob Dylan. The voice is gravelly and the politics very definitely radical. IRISH VOICE ...folk-punk with working clas
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Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
#15,790 today Peak #211
#2,890 in subgenre Peak #37
Author
Kirk Kelly
Rights
1986
Uploaded
August 19, 2005
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MP3 1.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
"Family farmers in the United States are under extreme economic pressure and many are in danger of being pushed off their land. This crisis in farm country is threatening the very existence of the family farm in America. As family farms are forced out by large, factory farms, the quality of our food, our environment and our food security is in danger." -from www.farmaid.com
Lyrics
A hundred years has come and gone Since your blood first plowed this farm. Six generations' bulging arms Fought drought and dust and locust swarms. Good and bad the years rolled on. Time has made this land your own. Tomorrow a stranger calls it home. Bankers first took notice when One machine replaced ten men. And each year since returned again And made black mark with gold plate pen When crops paid less than you would spend. Another man will live there now And he'll push the corporation plow. Ever darker, cold grey sky, Waves of grain wave said goodbye. Drive past the plot where your kin lie; Feel something deep inside you die. Don't let the children see you cry. A pain that few can understand- Another man will plow your land.
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