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Wal​-​Mart

from Everything Can Change by David Rovics

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A song for the corporation that is most responsible for the death of Main Street in the USA, and the deaths of so many sweatshop workers in its factories around the world -- the high cost of low price, as the excellent documentary says.

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There’s a thousand acres becoming clear
Cut down the forest, the big one’s here
Cover the ground with a mass of tar
Make sure there’s room for every car
One floor half mile massive sprawl One store wonder super mall
It’s spreading out far and wide Taking over the countryside
Say goodbye to your forests, they’re going down
Wal-Mart is coming to town

Your sons and daughters will have a fit
At the mountains of plastic shit
Chinese prisoners will sweat and bleed
And you’ll get all the stuff you need
Walton’s children profits reap Buying low and selling cheap
And what happens to mom and pop
Turn the key and close the shop
Say goodbye to your city, it’s shutting down

There goes the local department store See the diner shut it’s door
No more neighbors you can meet
More ghosts than people on the street
No more jobs with living pay
Sam Walton took it all away
Beneath fluorescent lights they’ll work you bare
The lucky ones can get on welfare
Forget your children’s cap and gown

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from Everything Can Change, released May 18, 2013
Alejandro | bass, drum programming
Jun | organ, drum programming

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David Rovics Portland, Oregon

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), anarchist, dad, lover of life.

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