There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land

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Pete Seeger

Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an iconic American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes. more »

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There is mean things happening in this land
There is mean things happening in this land
But the Union's going on
And the Union's growing strong
There is mean things happening in this land

On the eighteenth day of May
The Union called a strike
But planters and their bosses
Throwed the people out of their shacks
There is mean things happening in this land
There is mean things happening in this land
But the Union's going on
And the Union's growing strong
There is mean things happening in this land

There is mean things happening in this land
There is mean things happening in this land
Oh, the rich man boasts and brags
While the poor man goes in rags
There is mean things happening in this land

There is mean things happening in this land
There is mean things happening in this land
Too much cotton in our sacks
So we have none on our backs
There is mean things happening in this land

There is mean things happening in this land
There is mean things happening in this land
To much groceries on the shelves
So we have none for ourselves

There is mean things happening in this land

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