Name: the Money Crop (M. Reynolds)
Duration: P00H02M13S
Description: Written by Malvina Reynolds, one of my favorite topical and protest singers.

the Money Crop (M. Reynolds)

from The First Shall Be The Last by Matt Rivers

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Written by Malvina Reynolds, one of my favorite topical and protest singers.

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Well money has it’s own way
And money has to grow
It grows on human blood and bone
As any child would know
It’s iron stuff and paper stuff
With no life of it’s own
And so it takes it’s growing sap
From human blood and bone
(Blood and bone)

And many a child goes hungering
Because the wage is low
And folks die on the battle field
To make the money grow
And those who take the money crop
Are avid without end
They plant it in the tenements
To make it grow again

The little that they leave for us
It can not be a seed
We spend it on the shoddy clothes
And every daily need
We spend it in a minute
In an hour it is gone
To find its way to grow again
On human blood and bone
(Blood and bone)

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from The First Shall Be The Last, released May 1, 2023

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Matt Rivers is a modern relic & torchbearer for the old ways of song craft & performance; following in the footsteps of such artists as: Woody Guthrie, Blind Willie McTell, Harry McClintock, & countless nameless & forgotten forebears of the folk tradition. ... more

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