07 Apr 01 - 10:25 PM (#435537)
Subject: Lyr Add: HOUSE UN-AMERICAN BLUES ACTIVITIES DREAM
From: Greg F.
Thought this was already in the database but apparently not:
HOUSE UN-AMERICAN BLUES ACTIVITIES DREAM
(Richard Fariña)
I was standing on the sidewalk had a noise in my head
There were loudspeakers babbling, but nothing was said
There were twenty-seven companies of female Marines
There were presidential candidates in new Levi jeans
It was the Red, White and Blue planning how to endure
The fife, drum and bugle marching down on the poor
God bless America, without any doubt
And I figured it was time to get out.
Well, I had to flee the in-between scene, good people
Went and got undone in the sun, good people
Tourist information said to get on the stick
You ain't movin' til you're groovin' with a Cubana chick
So I hopped on a plane, took a pill for my brain
And I discovered I was feeling all right.
When I strolled down the Prado people looked at me wierd
Who's that hippy-hoppy character without any beard
Drinking juice from papaya, singing songs to the trees
Dancing mambo on the beaches, spreading social disease?
Now, the Castro convertible was changing its style
A whole lot of action on a blockaded isle
Then along come a summons in the middle of night
Saying "Buddy, we're about to indict!"
Well, I went up on the stand with my hand, good people
You've got to tell the truth in the booth, good people
Started out with information kind of remote
When a patriotic mother dragged me down by the throat
When they ask you a question, they expect a reply!
Doesn't matter if you're fixin' to die!
I was lying there unconscious feeling kind of exempt
When the judge said that silence was a sign of contempt.
He took out his gavel, banged me hard on the head
He fined me ten years in prison and a whole lot of bread
It was the Red, White and Blue making war on the poor
Blind Mother Justice on a pileof manure
Say your prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance every night
And tomorrow you'll be feeling all right.
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