Forum Post: Here's a guitar (not accordion) version of my OWS song...
Posted 10 years ago on Sept. 26, 2013, 7:10 a.m. EST by blakeginsberg
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http://www.reverbnation.com/thisoldman4/song/18704683-no-its-not-ok-occupy-wall-st-song
Lyrics:
No It's Not OK
Well you work all your life just to make ends meet Forget about a pension or Social Security You'll be working until you're eighty That's downward mobility
No It's not OK There's a better way People lead the way And we won't stop at Wall Street
The game is stacked in the one percent's favor And we the ninety-nine are not allowed at the table The GDP says wealth is being created But it floats up to the top away from those who generate it
No It's not OK There's a better way People lead the way And we won't stop at Wall Street
They know that to conquer they must first divide So they stoke up discontentment against those who are unionized Who have nice pensions and sane working hours too But instead of tearing them down why not build up you and me? Because you deserve the same things for your labor And the ninety-nine percent are your friends and your neighbors
No It's not OK There's a better way People lead the way And we won't stop at Wall Street
We don't want a handout we just want what we've earned And a fair shake for those who have been so badly burned Holding criminals responsible, what could be more mainstream? It's time to stop the theft of the American Dream
No It's not OK There's a better way People lead the way And we won't stop at Wall Street
Re. ''It's time to stop the theft of the American Dream'' ... please take a li'l time to consider :
''Heist - Who Stole The American Dream ?!'' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNaDDQZ07k ;
"Wealth Inequality In America" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM ;
"The Plague of Wall Street Banking", by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34360.htm ;
''Some Outrageous Facts about US Inequality", by Paul Buchheit : http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/02-0 & ...
"Capitalism in Crisis : Our Opportunity for a New System'', by M. Flowers and K. Zeese : http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/17083-capitalism-in-crisis-our-opportunity-for-a-new-system .
Thanx for your great tune and lyrics and I append and recommend the above in solidarity & finally fyi :
fiat lux ...
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I like this so much better than the accordion version.
You are how Bob Dylan should have been. I hate Bob Dylan. His voice makes me want to lock myself up in a bathroom with a box of razor blades.