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Thread #83960   Message #1546626
Posted By: open mike
21-Aug-05 - 12:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Round-Up Ready Round-Up
Subject: Lyr Add: ROUND-UP READY ROUND-UP (Flying Folk Army
It is the work of the Flying Folk Army and can be found on their CD: Massive Folk Fist to the Man. email: flyingfolk@resist.ca

From their website:
Notes - Round-up Ready Round-up

ROUND-UP READY ROUND-UP
Lyrics by Jonathon Teague & Alison Jenkins, Music by Megan Adam

Look at that flounder leap and bound
Impervious to cold-o
Blame that frost my crops I lost
My farm has to be sold-o
What's the harm in creative farming
It's so up to date-o
Here's my wish - combine that fish
With a ripe tomato


Round-up Ready
You can't kill them crazy beans
Genetically unsteady
C'mon eat your greens
Take that gene and fire it in
Your favourite vegetation
It's got a fin, that ain¹t no sin
It's a new GM creation

Super grains are might neat
No vermin can infest-o
Bioethics cannot beat our
Corporate Manifesto
Round-up Ready
Dig that terminator seed
Farmer Freddy
Screwed by corporate greed

Third World countries,
You'll do fine
Sign here on the dotted line
Soon your nations will be mine
It's the Round-up Ready roundup

Human clones or brainless drones
Some call it exploitation
Try these nifty pig hormones
It's xenotransplantation

Round-up Ready
You can't stop the march of science
Progress is steady
Just like your compliance

Round-up Ready
You can't kill them crazy beans
Genetically unsteady
C'mon eat your greens

Line up on this recording:
Vocals: All
Guitars: Duane Murrin & Sean Morton
5-String Banjo: Ben Rogalsky
Stand-up Bass: Russell Sholberg
Fiddle: Megan Adam
Additional Notes: Evil Biotech

This is from a chat list on Sing Out! magazine...
Anne Feeney answered my call for seed songs, reminding me of "Round Up Ready Round Up," which she has been singing around the country to great effect.

Anne's other links are also worth following. Peter Wilde's song has a
terrific chorus about saving seeds that should be easily adaptable to the anti-patented-seeds cause. The verses will all have to be re-done, however (unless you're singing at a NORML rally). The song recorded by Mike West turns out to be the same one, but New Orleans resident and New Jersey émigré Mike West is certainly worth discovering if you haven't already.




Anne Feeney
unionmaid@earthlink.net
www.annefeeney.com
7206 Michigan Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15218
412.241.SONG


Utah Phillips says "Anne Feeney is the greatest labor singer in North
America." Her anthem "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?"
http://cdbaby.com/cd/annefeeney2 appears on Peter, Paul and Mary's boxed set, "Carry It On," and in the award-winning documentaries, "This Is What Democracy Looks Like," and "Isn't This a Time? - A Tribute to Harold Leventhal."