This Land Is Made
For Them Who's Got
(A July 4, 2010 State
Of The Nation Song)

Chorus:
This land is Citi's, this land is Goldman's,
And JP Morgan, has its own huge holdings;
From Palm Springs condos,
To Southampton beaches,
This land is made for them who's got.

As I was mourning, my lost employment,
And ticked off 'bout that, Afghan deployment,
I heard that Wall Street, won't pay reform costs,
This land is made for them who's got.

Chorus

Those TV ranters, spew nasty feelings,
All civil discourse, gone from their spielings;
No sound solutions, all mindless blamings,
This land is made for them who's got.

Chorus

Most people's prospects, they keep on dimming,
Each day their goodies, get one more trimming;
Free speech is money, true speech gets buried, 
This land's been stole by them who's got.

*****

©2010 Michael Silverstein

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