Don't pretend to get within a million miles of Tom Lehrer, but my song The Wind Blows is on the first Pig's Ear album A Silk Purse. It was written in the late 1980s. In a corner of England an oak tree fell And we mourned it like a friend We cried, "See the power of the wind and the rain Oh, it's strength will never end When the wind blows." In a corner of South America, A forest died in a day And nobody mourned till it was too late And the price was left to pay Where the wind blows And we ripped out all the hedgerows And we ploughed the land to death And the fertile soil blew away in a cloud When the wind drew in its breath For the wind blows And man he built a powerhouse The wheels of commerce to turn And the accident that never should happen Did. And it was too late to learn How the wind blows Now we look on this land that is green and good And we say, "This must always be We will fight for this land to our very last breath!" But who's the enemy? When the wind blows
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