October 1st, 2008
Corporations Don’t Need to Eat
Corporations Don’t Need To Eat
by Nora Freeman, NYC Metro gaggle, 5/8/08
Tune: Ruby Tuesday
Corp’rate persons never need to eat
Not vegetables or any special treat
Clean water makes them think
Of money in the bank
I don’t think
They need a drink
CHORUS
Living breathing human persons
Need food and water too
But these are just commodities
On the free market
Capital goes all, around the world
Seeking sweatshops filled with boys and girls
No healthcare it provides
Living wages it derides
And union-bus-
ting is a must
CHORUS
Corp’rate persons are entitled to free speech
Their free speech takes ours out of reach
And freedom of the press
Is for those who OWN the press
Folks like usAin’t got the bucks
CHORUS
Food shortages and farmer suicides
Are just two ways that poor folks pay the price
The poor support the rich
In the lifestyle which
They demand
Ain’t it grand?
FINAL CHORUS:
Food and water, education
Healthcare and a place to live
How can they be commodities, on the free market
Don’t let them be commodities, on the free market
