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Cuban Doctors
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A celebration of the help Cuban doctors provide to people around the world.
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Political/personal songs since the 1960s -- killer ballads, working-class anthems, political satire. Fred's twelve-string guitar can be anything from a blues ba
Fred Stanton’s songs (along with his lumberjack voice and jumbo 12-string guitar) embody the political folk-singing tradition. Fred has been an industrial worker (a welder of oilfield equipment; an electronic assembler; and a railroad electrician, hostler and brakeperson) as well as a political organizer and union activist. This life is at the heart of his songsmoving, personal ballads, rollicking satires, and working-class anthems. Fred has been singing in concerts, union rallies and political protests since the 1960s. His union songs celebrate the struggles of strikers at Peabody Coal, poultry processing workers in North Carolina, and strawberry pickers in California. And his "Singing Cars," a Bronx salute to car alarms, has been featured on NPR’s "Car Talk" show. Newest songs include “Five-Dollar Coal,” which is the story of miners in Utah fighting for a union.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #237
Peak in subgenre #41
Author
Fred Stanton
Rights
Copyright © 2006 by Fred Stanton
Uploaded
July 16, 2006
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MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 2:36
Story behind the song
Cuba sends health workers around the world to help those hit by disasters (war, earthquakes, hurricanes). The U.S. government turned down an offer of help from Cuba after Katrina hit New Orleans. I wrote the song for a sendoff meeting of the Pastors for Peace caravan, bringing aid to Cuba.
Lyrics
Cuban Doctors In the barrios of Venezuela, Here come the Cuban doctors. When an earthquake rocks the Himalayas, Here come the Cuban doctors. When a hurricane has hit you hard, You never need an insurance card, They bring you the warmth of the human heart, Here come the Cuban doctors. Do your children need a vaccination? Here come the Cuban doctors. Does granny need an eye operation? Here come the Cuban doctors. They can work in a hut by candlelight, Live like you, on beans and rice, And they don’t think this is a sacrifice, Here come the Cuban doctors. When healthcare costs go up like a rocket, Here come the Cuban doctors. When hospitals close ’cause they make no profits, Here come the Cuban doctors. Medicine’s more than scalpels and drugs, It’s science and art, a labor of love, You can’t phone it in from your country club, Here come the Cuban doctors. In every coal mine, factory, and office, Here come the Cuban doctors. We don’t want cops and we don’t need bosses, Here come the Cuban doctors. When solidarity’s loud and clear, We can banish hunger, disease, and fear, We know in our hearts it can happen here, Here come the Cuban doctors. . . . We are all Cuban doctors. Copyright © 2006 by Fred Stanton
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