David Rovics sent out this message last week:
I haven’t recorded it yet, but I thought I’d send on this lyric since it’s so very in season. Hope to see you on the road and in the streets!
–David
Wal-Mart
David Rovics
There’s a thousand acres becoming clear
Cut down the forest, the big one’s here
Cover the ground with a mass of tar
Make sure there’s room for every car
One floor half mile massive sprawl
One store wonder super mall
It’s spreading out far and wide
Taking over the countryside
Say goodbye to your forests, they’re going down
Wal-Mart is coming to town
Your sons and daughters will have a fit
At the mountains of plastic shit
Chinese prisoners will sweat and bleed
And you’ll get all the stuff you need
Walton’s children profits reap
Buying low and selling cheap
And what happens to mom and pop
Turn the key and close the shop
Say goodbye to your city, it’s shutting down
Wal-Mart is coming to town
There goes the local department store
See the diner shut it’s door
No more neighbors you can meet
More ghosts than people on the street
No more jobs with living pay
Sam Walton took it all away
Beneath fluorescent lights they’ll work you bare
The lucky ones can get on welfare
Forget your children’s cap and gown
Wal-Mart is coming to town
No more local five and dime
It’s all just Wal-Mart overtime
But you can work all you want, night and day
As long as you can stand the pay
Just don’t get sick or have a kid
You’ll end up like the last one did
On the street and unemployed
In a town that’s been destroyed
Where misery has become a noun
Wal-Mart is coming to town
Bringing the whole country down
Wal-Mart is coming to town
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 