(tune: The Cruel War)
(This is part of my effort to bring mainline churches back on board on farm bill issues.
A secular version could be developed with a few modifications. )
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1. The Farm Bill train is coming, people join unite
G Am G C G
Rise up and get ready to stand for what’s right
G Em Am D7
The Farm Bill train is coming, it’s time to step on board
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For the sake of our children, for the sake of the Lord.
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2. Corporate agribusiness says the price they pay’s too high
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Farmers must subsidize them or they’ll just up and die.
G Em Am D7
They say it’s for you consumers, cheap food from farms to you.
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They promise they’ll pass it on, so you get subsidized too.
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3. Wait a cotton pickin’ minute, that just ain’t got hog sense.
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They ought to pay us a fair price to cover our expense.
G Em Am D7
We gotta pay back mainstreet, so every church bell chimes
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Each dollar we invest circulates multiple times.
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4. The megacorporations don’t give ya half that much.
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They’ll board up your school, feed ya Franken food and such.
G Em Am D7
Then they de-sex your frogs, send your jobs way over seas,
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America exports below our costs, dictators to appease.
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5. It's just not efficient, sellin’ below our cost.
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The profit's not competitive. From each bushel it is lost
G Em Am D7
It’s lost from our farms, drags communities down I say.
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Our state gets took and so does the good ol’ U.S.A.
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6. They claim it’s all for “Freedom,” free markets and free trade.
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It’s s'posed to build up exports, and then we’ll have it made.
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But Reagan’s “Evil Empire,” nations everywhere
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Get subsidized below our cost on every export there.
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7. Do you see that farmer Jesus, n’Africa across the sea,
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She’s the least of our sisters, bendin’ low upon her knees.
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We’re losin’ on every bushel, so we can dump our grain
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Record corporate profits are built upon her pain.
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8. The U.S.A.’s been snookered, looted all the way.
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It’s time to board the Farm Bill train, stand up and have your say.
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Export dumpin’ is sinful, what’s more, it never works
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We export grain below our cost and subsidize rich jerks.
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9. The Farm Bill train is coming, people join unite
G Am G C G
Rise up and get ready to stand and to fight.
G Em Am D7
The Farm Bill train is coming, it’s time to step on board
G Am G C G
For the sake of our children, for the sake of the Lord.
