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THOUGHTS, FOR WHAT THEY'RE WORTH
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IF YOU CAN FIND A WAY
If you can find a way to make the tax code fair, And see that all the one percenters pay their share;
If you reduce the deficit and never break the rules, But also fund the libraries and parks and public schools;
If you can make the corporations stand aside And leave it up to human beings to decide;
If you can reapportion all the district lines today And not let gerrymandering get in the way;
If you can write a health care plan we can afford That brings the rich and poor and sick and lame aboard;
If you can catch the bankers by surprise Before they give out bonuses to all their favorite guys;
If you can stop the globe from warming at its present pace And somehow manage to preserve the human race;
You would surely have a plan of great renown, But probably the Senate and the House would vote it down.
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In the words of Rudyard Kipling . . . “If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs and blaming you . . .” — you’ll get criticized a lot, but we need you in politics. * * * 
(I believe in free speech, so there is no charge.)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FOLK SONGS GONE? Where have all the folk songs gone— the ones we used to sing? What happened to the spirit that those melodies would bring? There were songs about injustices and causes we would settle, And now the only thing we hear is rap and heavy metal.
We had Peter, Paul and Mary and the Kingston Trio, too Who could always lift our spirits up before the night was through. We hadn’t many virtues, and a lot of us had sinned, But we all were seeking answers that were Blowin’ in the Wind.
We have to get the spirit back, as everybody says; We
need to find a woman who can sing like Joan Baez. The message of Bob Dillon now could use some rearrangin’; The times, in case you haven’t noticed, need a lot of changin’.
It’s really not much different than it was in sixty-eight; The players aren’t the same, but still the cause is just as great. We can’t expect to overcome unless we know the tune, And the way the world is headed now we’d better learn it soon.
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