Banks of Marble

[RoccoR5955]

Run time: 03:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QG4iImf8pY   Posted on YouTube: March 17, 2009 By YouTube Member: THEInterdome Views on YouTube: 2222   Posted on DU: October 09, 2011 By DU Member: RoccoR5955 Views on DU: 468

 
Pete Seeger wrote this one a while back. It's quite relevant today. Don't you think?
Here are the lyrics:

Banks of Marble

I've traveled round this country
From shore to shining shore.
It really made me wonder
The things I heard and saw.

I saw the weary farmer,
Plowing sod and loam;
I heard the auction hammer
A knocking down his home.


But the banks are made of marble,
With a guard at every door,
And the vaults are stuffed with silver,
That the farmer sweated for.

I saw the seaman standing
Idly by the shore.
I heard the bosses saying,
Got no work for you no more.

But the banks are made of marble,
With a guard at every door,
And the vaults are stuffed with silver,
That the seaman sweated for.

I saw the weary miner,
Scrubbing coal dust from his back,
I heard his children cryin',
Got no coal to heat the shack.

But the banks are made of marble,
With a guard at every door,
And the vaults are stuffed with silver,
That the miner sweated for.

I've seen my brothers working
Throughout this mighty land;
I prayed we'd get together,
And together make a stand.


Then we'd own those banks of marble,
With a guard at every door;
And we'd share those vaults of silver,
That we have sweated for

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