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GUEST,Kate Lyric/Attribution Correction: Borderlines (7) Lyr Add: BORDERLINES (V DePriest/G Gingrich) 26 Apr 05


I looked on your FAQ page for information on how to correct lyrics in your database but was unable to find a clear answer. Thus, I started a new thread.
Before I begin I would like to say I don't know how you go about updating the lyrics on this site based on suggestions in a forum like this from strangers around the world considering you have no basis on which to establish their credibility, but as I am directly related to both authors of this song, and would like to see it accurate, I hope you have some way of verifying the corrections.
Also, and I hate to say it, these corrections are not that big of a deal. Just minor things that impact the overall flow of the song, especially when it is sung.

I want to make it easier so I've posted the lyrics twice, the way you have and the correct way. I stared the lines that are changed.
Here are the lyrics you have:
BORDERLINES
(Valerie Depriest and Gail Gingrich)*
I'm hearing how business is tough in America
And they say the union's out of hand.
But I read in the news today about the latest threat to my pay
This is one thing I must understand.
They're telling us that they cannot afford our wage*
As they turn their greedy eyes on distant shores.
As patrols guard the borderlines and I'm standing in a picket line
Corporate boardroom plans are formed to move my plant to Ecuador
Where for fifty cents a day, a worker slaves her life away
And then they tell me she's my enemy.
At first I did not have the time to trouble myself with the world
And it all seemed so very far away.
But now I'm in a worried mood, Ucause hands need work and kids need food*
And I just got laid off today.
They're telling us that it is just good business
As foreign sweat spells profit like disease*
As patrols guard the borderlines and I'm standing in an unemployment line
While in the Philippines, a mind grows numb from sewing seams*
Guatemalan hills of cash; a coffee picker's skull is smashed
And then they tell me he's my enemy.
Now I am finally putting it all together;
Borderlines won't score my loyalty.
They don't care who is the drone; hands of yellow, black, or brown.
Profit is their only deity.
As corporate hands of power reach around the world,
They'll strangle any weak neck they can find.
From the diamond mines of Africa to the fields of El Salvador,*
From the sweatshops down in Mexico to the wire slots in Tokyo,
Sweat is sweat and blood is blood, and one day soon the time must come
We'll stand and face our common enemy.
Sweat is sweat and blood is blood, and one day soon the time must come
We'll stand and face our common enemy.


And here is the corrected lyrics:
    BORDERLINES
    (Valerie DePriest and Gayle Gingrich)

    I'm hearing how business is tough in America
    And they say the union's out of hand.
    But I read in the news today about the latest threat to my pay
    This is one thing I must understand.
    They're telling us that they cannot afford our raises
    As they turn their greedy eyes on distant shores.

    As patrols guard the borderlines and I'm standing in a picket line
    Corporate boardroom plans are formed to move my plant to Ecuador
    Where for fifty cents a day, a worker slaves her life away
    And then they tell me she's my enemy.

    At first I did not have the time to trouble myself with the world
    And it all seemed so very far away.
    But now I'm in a worried mood, 'cause hands need work and kids need food
    And I just got laid off today.
    They're telling us that it is just good business
    As foreign sweat swells profit like disease

    As patrols guard the borderlines and I'm standing in an unemployment line
    Somewhere in the Philippines, a mind grows numb from sewing seams
    Guatemalan hills of cash; a coffee picker's skull is smashed
    And then they tell me he's my enemy.

    Now I am finally putting it all together;
    Borderlines won't score my loyalty.
    They don't care who is the drone; hands of yellow, black, or brown.
    Profit is their only deity.
    As corporate hands of power reach around the world,
    They'll strangle any weak neck they can find.

    From the diamond mines of South Africa to the fields of El Salvador,
    From the sweatshops down in Mexico to the wire slots in Tokyo,
    Sweat is sweat and blood is blood, and one day soon the time must come
    We'll stand and face our common enemy.

    Sweat is sweat and blood is blood, and one day soon the time must come
    We'll stand and face our common enemy.

    copyright Valerie DePriest and Gayle Gingrich
    @political @labor
    filename[ BORDERLN
    DS


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