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作曲 : David Stefan Rovics |
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When I came to this country, left Scotland far behind |
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Evicted from the highlands, told to go and find |
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A new life in America across the Atlantic Sea |
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Where I joined the millions of other refugees |
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Who ended up at Ellis Island as the century began |
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The wretched of the Earth from every foreign land |
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When I came to this country, broken and bereft |
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I quickly saw I'd have been no worse off if I'd never left |
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Such awful deprivations as I'd never had to face |
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Borne by Swedes and Russians, Africans and every other race |
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Millions of people trying not to end up dead |
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From cholera or blacklung or getting clubbed on the head |
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When I came to this country, to have something on my fork |
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It was obvious the first thing was to get out of New York |
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I learned to hop the free trains, some other stiffs and I |
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Caught a westbound rattler to give Oregon a try |
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Signed up for the logging camps, became a timber beast |
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If I'd stayed there any longer I'd have surely been deceased |
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When I came to this country, I worked the copper mines in Butte |
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I was a gandy dancer in Spokane in a gandy dancer suit |
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I heard the Rebel Girl speak one night in a railway yard |
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I joined the union right away and got my first red card |
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I became a hobo organizer for the One Big Union grand |
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Preaching the Wobbly gospel across this starving land |
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When I came to this country, I soon enough lost track |
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Of the number of times I felt a billy club upon my back |
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Or how many times I saw the tents with freezing kids |
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Working in the mines instead of living on the skids |
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How many times I heard the horrid crying from below |
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Of those trapped there in the dungeons with nowhere left to go |
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When I came to this country, it was a hopeful time of desperation |
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The red flags flew all across the nation |
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But when the war began in Europe we refused to die and kill |
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We refused to fight a bosses' war and serve the bosses' will |
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That's when they got the Legion to burn down our union halls |
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All across the land, where there used to be four walls |
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When I came to this country, I had no great expectations |
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But I didn't think I'd end up back here awaiting deportation |
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On a steamship on the Hudson, I watch the sunset fade |
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With 20,000 others swept up in the Palmer Raids |
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Counting myself lucky that I'm still alive |
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Remembering the moment that I first arrived |
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When I came to this country |
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When I came to this country |
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When I came to this country... |
