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Pretty Polly

from Goin' Over The River by The New Savages

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Oh come around girl
Pretty Polly will sing a song
Said some around girl
Pretty Polly will sing a song
About a South American nation
In 1954

Guatemala's born a new
In the last ten years
Guatemala's born a new
In the last ten years
The common man his own master
No longer in fear

Pretty Polly will sing a lonesome song
Pretty Polly will sing no one will listen at all

Slave labour's cut
For the last ten years
Slave labour's cut
For the last ten years
US profits
Have been fallin' every year

Lobby man to the CIA says
Don't you owe me one
Lobby man to the CIA says
Don't you owe me too?
Overthrow their president in a military coup

Pretty Polly will sing a lonesome song
Pretty Polly will sing no one will listen at all

The General says to his president
I will drink your blood like wine
The General says to his president
I will drink your blood like wine
Twenty thousand people
Will be on borrowed time

In the streets you hear dogs bark
They got somethin' on their minds
In the streets you hear dogs bark
They got somethin' on their minds
But the men sit still they cannot go out of line

Pretty Polly will sing a lonesome song
Pretty Polly will sing no one will listen at all

Democracy's a failin'
And I wish somebody cared
Democracy's a failin'
And I wish somebody cared
Propaganda drives that money
And corruption takes her there

Capitol Hill not a word
The boys in blue never weep
Capitol Hill not a word
The boys in blue never weep
They've swallowed the lies
On their tongues that help them sleep
Communism they said was the only evil here

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from Goin' Over The River, released June 12, 2016

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