I wrote this song at the Netroots shindig for The Freedom From Fear Awards -- "a new national award that honors 15 ordinary people who have committed extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees -- individuals who have taken a risk, set an example, and inspired others to awareness or action. The award honors unsung heroes who are not professional advocates."
In deciding what to write, I thought I would include an anti-immigrant history with the still befuddling question I have for the Tea Party folk.
You can listen to the song here, and the lyrics follow.
When They Say "We Want Our America Back", What The F#@k Do They Mean?
When they say, "we want our America back", Our America back, our America back." When they say, " we want our America back"Well, what the... f%#k do they mean? Remember the garden of Eden? Before eve hung out with that snake?You could walk down the streets not worry bout thieves All the kids could go trick or treating. Then those foreigners started coming inLike the Germans in 1790Then the Irish arrived, the potato blightThe neighborhood started changing
Life was better, we lived right,Life had a paler shade of white, when they sing"We want our America Back" Before there was Ellis islandAnd that statue we got from the FrenchThat whore's still alerting, with strangers she's flirtingInviting them into our bedsThe guineas, the coolies, the wetbacks, the redsThe Jews, now those terroristsAnd who let in the woman who looks after my kidAnd the one who is cleaning my mess?
Before the gays had their agenda, before the slaves were freeBefore that man from Kenya took the presidency
Life was so righteous, life was so clean.Send em all back including meWhen they say, "we want our America back", Our America back, our America back." When they say, " we want our America back"
Well, what the...f%#k do they mean?
Before the gays had their agenda, before the slaves were freeBefore that man from Kenya took the presidency