Lyrics:
the making of The Banned
We crossed borders - but we never cut corners
Chinese migrant workers built the west in California
After the war was over they turned
Yeah, I'm Chinese and what?
Yeah, you know who this is, Jin
Let me tell you this
The days of the pork fried rice and the chicken wings coming
Yeah, I'm Chinese and what?
Yeah, you know who this is, Jin
Let me tell you this
The days of the pork fried rice and the chicken wings coming
that's how the Chinese saw it in the 19th century
Leaving everything behind for just a chance at entry
Sailing like sardines with diet'ry deficiencies
No
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white
There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
Long before the white
We are the children of the migrant worker
We are the offspring of the concentration camp
Sons and daughters of the railroad builder
Who leave their
Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements, known as shadow contracts, before they leave China, severely and, in some ways, illegally restricting
first the redman's
Guide of a ship
On the first Columbus trip (pedro alonzo nino)
Was a brown man
The railroads for trains
Came on tracking that
Yea we at the Chinese bakery
Red bean paste flavors taken me
I'm out cold, workers shaking me
Yea we at the Chinese bakery
Buns are so crazy, I'm
Too good to be true for a railroad worker
Daddy said we weren't meant to be
Though I knew it from the start
They say "the dollar rules the heart"
I said
Yeah
I don't be hiring workers, I don't be hiring workers, they ask for too much, yeah they ask for
Too much
I resort to child slaves, they don't be
and a scrambling around
Tryin to get the line an get the teepee down
Railroad owner's 'bout to go insane
Tryin' to get the workers out the way of the train
Here come
and a scrambling around
Tryin to get the line an get the tee pee down
Railroad owner's 'bout to go insane
Tryin' to get the workers out the way of the train
Here
she live?) Down in Louisiana
(Tell us what she do) She's a mojo worker
(Woo hoo) Gonna work her thing for me
(Woo hoo) Gonna end my misery, baby
(Woo
Well in the heat of day down in mobile, Alabama
I'm workin' on the railroad with a steel drivin' hammer
I gotta get some money buy some brand new
Jin (Rd. 1)
If you walk off the stage now I just might spare you
As far as the Chinese jokes, I dare you
Watch what you get yourself into
Cuz
cheap labored manufacturing flow
Go
Make as much product as fast as you can
Working workers more hours than they can fuckin stand
Pay the people as low
take back what we made
We these Wranglers, sportin ten-inch spurs
We gon get it all back, take it in our rugged sacks
The workers worked their wage, but
my brain
A refrain of those plain days
Once I saw a worker driving
A railroad spike into the ground
And the vision of his hammering
It beat the sound
Welcome! Youtube take my video down and say
"oh no it's not cause your Chinese"
But every time I say AIDS and
Russians in the same sentence
It's get
Hannah
Down in Louisiana
Oh, she's a mojo worker
She gonna work that thing for me (she gonna work it out)
She gonna hear my misery
And I know he'll be
Narration 4
The hobo is a reocurring subject in the Jimmie Rodgers songs
Hoboing was an accepted form of travel for the migrant worker
Or for
In the heat of the day down in Mobile Alabama
Working on the railroad with the steel driving hammer
I gotta get some money to buy some brand new
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