MUSIC NAVbarz 2
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON
music - traditional, original lyrics by Florence Reece;
new lyrics by Polarity/1
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Come all you good workers and all you dispossessed

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The perps are not in prison. Nobody has confessed

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Chorus: Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on?

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                Which side are you on, girls? Which side are you on?

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My daddy was a banker but I'm not a banker's son
I refuse to profit from the pain of anyone

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My mama was a waitress and I'm a waitress' girl
I take nobody's orders. I'm here to feed the world

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Chorus

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We'll occupy the city. We'll occupy the town
We're an occupational hazard till justice comes around

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Corporate-owned country eating corporate ruined food
We'll be making lots of noize here cause we won't be subdued

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Chorus

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DARKER VERSION

The workers built a country. They built a middle class
Unions and inventors, the teachers and the brass
But now it's run by players; It's a zero sum game
Buying senators and mayors And unions get the blame

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Their greed still kills the miner; the job creator's plan
Creating jobs for China while we're living in a van
Corruption is rewarded; social justice made a joke
Equality is thwarted. Our democracy is broke

They poisoned the government, the rivers and the land
They turned our creativity Into Walmart for the bland
The point-O-one percent will own us through and through
They own the fuckin planet and they feel like more is due

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They sang this in the 30s to call for a new deal
We sing it in the street today. The cause is just as real

Gotta occupy the streets and occupy this song
Gotta occupy reality before everything is gone

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The problem isn't money It's very useful stuff
But it's nothing but a sickness if you just can't get enough
The sickness bought the future. The dream is just a con
History is calling to say which side are you on?

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music - traditional, original lyrics by Florence Reece;
new lyrics by Polarity/1
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