Songs by Tod Mikuriya
I'm Glad I'm not an Okie from Muskogee
They rot their minds and bodies with white lightning
Strewing highways with slaughters of the drunks.
While the cops are busy raiding bedrooms
Of the marijuana smoking leftist punks.
Chorus:
I'm glad I'm not an Okie from Muskogee
Where the mind and the conscience are asleep.
Frightened and kept ignorant from childhood,
Is it any wonder that they act like sheep.
The local campus hero is the jock strap
Scholarship and brand new shiny car.
Making business good for the abortionist
Who pays the sheriff who owns the local bar.
(chorus)
Sex education was sent her by the devil.
We hear a pious aging preacher bray.
Keep our children just as ignorant as we were,
As the welfare roles keep growing day by day.
(chorus)
American Legion and VFW Veterans
March down a flag- draped main street twice a year.
Then sit around swilling beer and watching pornies,
Just in case you'd wonder if they're queer.
(chorus)
Nixon, Mitchell, Agnew were their heroes,
And the indo china war's a holy cause
The widow's flags draped on our sons' pine boxes
Repay us for a war outside the laws.
(chorus)
This Land is Their Land
Chorus:
This land is their land.
It is not our land.
From Sacramento
To the Federal wasteland.
Bought and paid for by special interests.
This land is not for you and me.
1) They keep on censoring,
They go on lying
While friends are sick
Loved ones lay dying.
Depression and pain leave us all sighing.
This land is not for you and me.
(chorus)
(2) The years go by with each commission.
Deaf ears to truth
And we keep wishin'
For common sense and abolition.
Change the laws and make us free.
(chorus)
California Pandering
(to the tune of "Wandering")
(1) They`ve been pandering early
They`ve been pandering late.
FromSan Diego up to Humboldt State.
And it don`t look like they`re ever going to cease their panderin`.
(2) We can`t be too careful.
That`s an easy thing to say.
If we`re ignorant and stupid
Facts can`t get in the way.
And it don`t look like they`re ever going to cease their panderin`.
(3) What is this wrong signal
They might have to send?
For some the herb is medicine,
An old and useful friend.
And it don`t look like they`re ever going to cease their panderin`.
(4) Our great prevention governor
Assassin of our youth
Lock em up and keep em dumb
Don't let them know the truth
Believe me, he's never gonna quit his pandering
(5) Our pudgy White House waffler
Who never did inhale
The deaf and blinded congress
Wants to put us all in jail
And it don't look like they're ever going to cease their panderin
(6) So keep on with the struggle
For compassion, love, and trust.
California needs drug laws
That protect, and are just
But it looks like they're never gonna cease their panderin.
03/17/95