Blog Action Day: 20 Songs About Poverty

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“Children play with rusted cars/Sores cover their hands/Politicians laugh and drink-drunk to all demands/Families buying dog food now/Starvation roams the streets/Babies die before theyre born/Infected by the grief.”

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“You got a fast car/And we go cruising to entertain ourselves/You still ain’t got a job/And I work in a market as a checkout girl/I know things will get better/You’ll find work and I’ll get promoted/We’ll move out of the shelter/Buy a big house and live in the suburbs.”

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“North south east west/kill the best and buy the rest/it’s just spend a buck to make a buck/you don’t really give a flying fuck/about the people in misery/IMF dirty MF/takes away everything it can get/always making certain that there’s one thing left/keep them on the hook with insupportable debt.”

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“Hard times in the city/In a hard town by the sea/Ain’t nowhere to run to/There ain’t nothin’ here for free.”

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“There’s a crack up in the ceiling/And the kitchen sink is leaking/Out of work and got no money/A Sunday joint of bread and honey/What are we living for?/Two-roomed apartment on the second floor/No money coming in/The rent collector’s knocking, trying to get in/We are strictly second class/We don’t understand/Why we should be on dead end street/People are living on dead end street/Gonna die on dead end street.”

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“Another victim born out here in the hood/And based on statistics in really ain’t all good/Welfare take the tab and daddy can’t sign/And it can’t be seen, the family becomes a crime…/A new world order, a brand new day/A change of mind for the human race.”

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“Lord help the human race/Lord help human race/Cause we all die together/And we face the morning sun/Oh Lord, help.”

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“Gotta find a solution to this pollution/The poor man a feel it/Gas gone up/Bus fare gone up/The rent gone up/For meal gone up?/Lighting gone up/The tax gone up/Car parts gone up/And mi can’t take the first law.”

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“Bill collectors they ring my phone/And scare my wife when I’m not home/Got a bum education, double-digit inflation/Can’t take the train to the job, there’s a strike at the station.”

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“To hell with poverty we’ll get drunk on cheap wine!”