[lit-ideas] Re: speaking of libraries in the United States of Earth
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 03:03:18 +0100
You're welcome, Mike. For people who don't know them, here are the
full lyrics of Deportee:
Words by Woody Guthrie
Music by Martin Hoffman
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting
The oranges piled up in their creosote dumps
You're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To spend all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maria
You wont have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"
Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted
Our work contracts up and we have to move on
600 miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maria
You wont have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"
The skyplane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning, shook all our hills
Who are all these friends who are scattered like dry leaves
The radio said they were just "deportees"
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos Jesus y Maria
You wont have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be "deportees"
Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 2:49:31 AM, Mike Geary wrote:
MG> Thank you, Judy. As you well know, I'm not a scholar of anything. I have
MG> only my prejudices to go by. I call them my Mama's teachings. I'm
MG> convinced that even for moral philosophers their own personal morality is
MG> what Mama taught them -- gut-wise at least -- or the reverse in rejection of
MG> her. Given the chance, all men are honest and decent and hard-working and
MG> even loving -- provided their mothers raised them to be that way. But cheat
MG> them, they'll cheat back. As well they should for that's how their mothers
MG> taught them. Except the saints among us. There are the saints among us,
MG> the Jesuses and the Gandhis and the Martin Luther Kings, all those anonymous
MG> souls who give their lives to NGO's fighting starvation or the Doctors
MG> Without Borders people struggling anonymosly to save human lives -- people
MG> who transcend their own histories to call us all to a greater vision of
MG> ourselves. There's something grossly out of place culturally in our knowing
MG> George Bush's name and none of theirs. But who doesn't know Brad Pitt? Who
MG> knows Dennis Kucinnich
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