Name: Those Who Rule
Duration: P00H04M14S
Description: I was sitting at a piano at a friend's place in NYC, doddling around and this song came up out of the keys. My friend Joe had turned me on to Noam Chomsky's writing and I was finding him revelatory in terms of class rule, manipulation by way of religion and jingoist patriotism.

Those Who Rule

from Make a Map by Thinkspeak

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I was sitting at a piano at a friend's place in NYC, doddling around and this song came up out of the keys. My friend Joe had turned me on to Noam Chomsky's writing and I was finding him revelatory in terms of class rule, manipulation by way of religion and jingoist patriotism.

lyrics

This arbitrary set of borders
requires that I take my orders
from those who rule
so purer over here than over there
our flag will always flap the air
of those who rule

2.
I lay my hat where I am warm
citizen of where I'm born
loyal to those who rule
such Christians over here heathen there
our cross will always flap the air
of those who rule

3.
a misanthropic impulse forms
against a lesser rising storm
from those who rule
a just and beneficient share from over there
said share will always flap the air
of those who rule

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from Make a Map, released October 2, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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