62. The People Were in the Way

from Ecowrap by My Rap Name is Alex

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lyrics

Boats, Coats, Commands in throats
clear cut the new world for cows and goats
gotta build more colts and tame more heathens
they gonna learn capitulation if they wanna keep breathin
Oklahoma oh it'll be JUST like Virginia
Fire Water will help you, now your lives can continue
we bear gifts, Small Pox, cause we're civilized
watch tribe after tribe vanish right before your eyes
Mississippi and Amazon brought life to the land
now they bring horses and gunshots Conquistador & white man
old world too crowded? Here's a new place to stay
but these People are in the way
Hay
but these People are in the way
Hay

Build a bigger boat, sail to Africa and tell them
these trees are worth some money But that money is for Belgium
text tbooks teach me: it's good what we do
Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold II
DeBeers and Anglo they're entitled to a cash flow
built by brown bodied babies working down in a deep hole
Gimmie the Gold, gimmie the jewels, Give me everything I say
and do not be in my way
Hay
best not be in the way
Hay

A man, sand, ancient lands
where carivans traveled in narrow bands
near to far east, they all came through
A center of culture and commerce too
now what they do? The hanging garden grows a column of smoke
father, son, searching, trying hard not to choke
no joke, you lived a little to close to the gas plantations
so now it's goodbye nation hello radiation
there's the shell of their old home so little is left
An invading army that liberates you to death
A foot an ear here to bury this day
of the family that was in the way
Hay
family was in the way
Hay

credits

from Ecowrap, released May 1, 2018
music and lyrics by My Rap Name is Alex

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My Rap Name is Alex Buffalo, New York

My Rap Name is Alex. I'm a story teller from Buffalo, New York in North America. These days I tend to focus on stories having to do with how we can treat ourselves, the beings around us, and our environment much better than we have been.

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