ANGER IN THE LAND as performed by (I had thought it was Odetta but the Internet doesn't find her doing it, and the PP&M versions are cleaned of the second verse), recalled by Mrrzy

Feel free to discuss the topicality of this song with the cops shooting threads, or the fact that the full version has been cleaned.

ANGER IN THE LAND

Oh, there's grievin' in the country.
There's sorrow in the sand.
There's sobbin' in the shanty,
And there's anger in the land.

There's been another lynchin'
And another grain of sand
Swells the mountain of resentment
Oh, there's anger in the land

A woman broods in silence
Close beside an open door,
Flung down on her flimsy doorstep
Lies a corpse upon the floor.

"You'll not ask me why I'm silent,"
The woman said to me.
Her two eyes blazed in anger
And her throat throbbed agony.

"Once my heart could cry in sorrow.
Now it lies there on the floor
In the ashes by the hearthstone.
They can't hurt it anymore."

Oh, let the wind go cryin' yonder
In the tree-tops by the spring.
Let its voice be soft and feelin'
Like it was a livin' thing.

There's grievin' in the country.
There's sorrow in the sand.
There's sobbin' in the shanty,
And there's anger in the land.

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See Dere's Trouble in De Land (click)