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Track 21 HOMELESS IN AMERICA: Twenty-One Songs of Social Conscience for the 21st Century
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Top Nashville musicians and vocalists perform 21 songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-
Top Nashville musicians and session vocalists perform songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-war, poverty, health, taxation, immigration, environmental, social security privatization, gun control, negative effects of neo-con and religious 'right' agendas, etc. Genres include country, blues, rock, folk, R&B soul, pop, Native USA, bluegrass, Americana, Southern Rock, Rock-a-Billy and alternative.
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Country • Alternative Country
Charts
Peak #57
Peak in subgenre #10
Author
Richard Aberdeen / Daniel Muhammad
Rights
2005 Freedom Tracks Music
Uploaded
August 27, 2005
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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 2:48
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WILLIE'S SONG

You may park in a mansion grand; a castle built on sand
Have more than enough while your poor neighbors lack
Check out in a silk-lined box 'neath a hand- carved granite rock
But you can't keep the shirt that’s on your back

No you can’t, no you can’t
No you can’t take it with you when you go
No matter how hard you work, no matter how hard you play
All you get to keep is what you gave away

You may shack with a drop-dead fox in a borrowed krib
that rocks
Run it up on plastic and never intend to pay
Drive a great big fancy car, party hard on caviar
But the grim reaper will come collect some day

No you can’t, no you can’t
No you can’t take it with you when you go
No matter how you complain and no matter how much you pray
All you get to keep is what you gave away

Oh, When it’s time (when it’s time), when it’s time (when it’s time)
When it’s time to leave this world someday
No matter what we do, believe or think or say
All we get to keep is what we gave away

Yeah, you may bitch and moan, ask for an extended loan
But all we get to keep is what we gave away
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