Doug Lang : Hope And Faith And Glory

The video was done first thing today, August 23rd 2008, after I got out of the shower, my voice still a little shrill, but you get the idea...

HOPE & FAITH & GLORY

We were listening to Will Geer speak
About McCarthy's time
He was pals with Woody Guthrie when
Free speech became a crime
Long before Grandpa Walton
The country was still young
The witch hunts were in progress
The truth was being sung
It's in Harry Smith's Anthology
And every hardluck story
Old weird America
Hope and faith and glory

We were speaking of the blacklist
Of spirits you can't kill
Lucy Mason, Cesar Chavez
Eugene Debs and old Joe Hill
The most dangerous woman in the world
Known as Mother Jones
And the song that wasn't buried
With Harriet Tubman's bones
It's lost below the headlines now
The courage of their story
That train doesn't run no more
Hope and faith and glory

Food on the table, roof above
They're not heaven sent
Children know they will not grow
Up to be president
Companies run the country now
Too much wealth in too few hands
And a sadness that's too big to hide
Behind the marching bands
We lose a guide when we divide
The tellers from the story
It's blowin' in the wind again
Hope and faith and glory

We were listening to Will Geer speak
Of a nation in its prime
Of when this land was your land
And whether there's still time
To reclaim its dignity
To grieve and dream and do
In old weird America
Red, white, black and blue
Forgetting is the enemy
Of the nation's story
Come, remember now with me
Hope and faith and glory
In old weird America
Hope and faith and glory

DL

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[TheeLYRICISTmaan]

Great voice! Great Music.