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Third World
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Old, short, overweight, bald.
Jerry McLeer is a songwriter/guitarist living in the great desert Southwest. His songs are often topical, with liberal use of irony and humor.
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Genre
Rock Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #287
Peak in subgenre #28
Uploaded
October 02, 2010
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MP3 4.7 MB 128 kbps 5:07
Lyrics
They're shutting down the factory Putting padlocks on the door Laid off a thousand workers Shipped their jobs offshore Welcome to the Third World – Third World America Welcome to the Third World – Third World America Packing up our bags on moving day Sheriff knocking on our door Everything we own out by the curb It ain't our house no more Living in the Third World Sleeping in our Caravan Keeping us warm at night Until it's towed by the repo man Rich man eating caviar Boss man drinks champagne While children go to bed hungry at night Can't you feel their pain? Children in the Third World Got hungry mouths to feed Surviving in the Third World Begging for what they need Now you can walk down any street in any town in America And you'll see all those foreclosure signs Then you drive downtown to the heart of the city See the families waiting on food lines And all those displaced families living out on the street They need somewhere to stay Meanwhile we got all those abandoned houses Just boarded up and rotting away Wasted in the Third World - Third World America Wasted in the Third World - Third World America Rich man he got silver And Gold hanging 'round his neck Well I don't need none of that I got me an ounce of lead I try not to think about the life I used to have I'm just thankful for the things I got And I got more than a lot of folks have today Got me three squares and a cot… Living in the Third world - Gulag America Living in the Third World - Third World America
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