Jim Healey Poet Lyric

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(Can be sung to the tune of MacArthur Park)

Minneapolis

They were never waiting for us girl.
They were one step ahead
though they never had a case.
Between the streets and highways
they would chase
and hunt us down like rats
just to put us "in our place."

Minneapolis is trending in the news,
all the big bad ICE men going round,
looking for some brown folks to detain.
I don't think that they will make it
'cause the people just won't take it
and they won't put up with hooligans again.
Oh no.

I recall the winter’s chilling wind 
coming like a wave
in the air and round the stalls.
The children and the babies
snatched from hands
and the old folks wandering dazed
by the mall.

Minneapolis is trending in the news,
all the big bad ICE men going round,
looking for some Asians to detain.
I don't think that they will make it
'cause the people just won't take it
and they won't put up with ruffians again.
Oh no.

There will be another home for me
and I will seek it.
There will be another dream for me
and I will feel it.
I will drink the wine of liberty
and never let you catch me
facing down a gun.
And after all the times in my life,
after all the times of my life
I'll know I have won.

I will take my life into my hands
and I will live it.
I will win the respect in their eyes
or I will lose it.
I will have the freedom I desire
and my fervor flow like waters
by and by.
And after all the times in my life,
after all the times of my life
I will be forgetting them
and never ask why.

Minneapolis is trending in the news,
all the big bad ICE men going round,
looking for Somalis to detain.
I don't think that they will make it
'cause the people just won't take it
and they won't put up with treachery again.
Oh no.

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