This has to be one of the guttsiest protest songs to date.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
-Sinclair Lewis
With those thoughts in mind, I direct your attention to the website www.wastelandofthefree.com
Folksinger Iris Dement makes McMurtry seem kind of tame. I heard this song on XM’s Cross Country a few weeks ago and thought I needed to hear it again. The website has a link to a YT video (of course) and an MP3.
“We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines/
and their speech is growing increasingly inkind.
They say they are Christ’s disciples
But they don’t look like Jesus to me
And it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free.”
-Dement
