A modern protest song, lamenting the loss of jobs in this country because of the exportation permitted and promoted by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Story behind the song
Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement. Other than that and Monica Lewinski, he did a lot of GOOD things. This treaty, while it looks good on its face, resulted in the mass export of jobs from the United States. Seems to some folks, your countrymen don't matter when you can make a buck...
Lyrics
There are some lyrics some folks might find offensive. Nothing overtly sexual in nature, just cursing...
NAFTA
I turned off the TV,
Shut down the radio.
They kept tellin' me things
I don't want to know.
I heard the price of a new car,
And I thought they were nuts...
Sellin' buckets of rust
For twenty thousand bucks.
A service economy can feed off itself for a spell.
But without the producers
Making new products,
Soon it will all go to hell.
While down at McDonalds, we'll work till we're eighty
With Chinese-made aprons and hats,
Sayin', "We're glad you're here!"
"Is that a large?"
And, "Do you want fries with that?"
I heard somewhere in Washington
Some guy's gettin' rich.
He's stealing my living,
That son-of-a- b*** .
He used NAFTA to move
All our jobs way down south
Steal the bread from my babies
And the food from my mouth.
A service economy can feed off itself for a spell.
But without the producers
Making new products,
Soon it will all go to hell.
While down at McDonalds, we'll work till we're eighty
With Chinese-made aprons and hats,
Sayin', "We're glad you're here!"
"Is that a large?"
And, "Do you want fries with that?"
They say the jobs that they're taking
Nobody will do.
But they're makin' cars
And refrigerators, too.
They're closing down plants
To save a few bucks
Now we can't afford
To buy Japanese trucks.
A service economy can feed off itself for a spell.
But without the producers
Making new products,
Soon it will all go to hell.
While down at McDonalds, we'll work till we're eighty
With Chinese-made aprons and hats,
Sayin', "We're glad you're here!"
"Is that a large?"
And, "Do you want fries with that?"
Sayin', "We're glad you're here!"
"Is that a large?"
And, "Do you want fries with that?"
BRILLIANT! JON:)