Highway 69 Revisited Mitch Rice-1994
Well, the Big Boys up in Indy, they like to spend our dough,
And when they drive to Evansville, they feel it is too slow,
So they want a billion dollars, just to save eight minutes time
While they tear up Southern Indiana, a land still in it's prime!
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And we've been down this road before, one too many times,
Paving over Mother Earth, it really is a crime!
We don't need more semi's, roaring through our land,
Back down home in Paradise, southern In-di-an(a)
They say we need this highway, to trade with Mexico,
Just trade off jobs and industry, and southward they will go,
In the land of revolutions and cheap labor they will hide,
And so the average Hoosier is just taken for a ride!
Highway 69, they say, will bring us all great wealth,
But breathing all those diesel fumes, it ain't good for your health!
While working at the truckstop is the best job you can find,
You know the nation's better jobs and days are now behind.
Now, the Amish they don't want it,
It would cut their farms in two.
But the Governor says build it,
this road is going through.
We've got stick together
to save our rural lands
You know we have the power,
the future's in our hands
So now you know the story, and you know what to do,
Just call up the governor, state legislators too
Tell them we don't need this road, that it will do no good,
We know that they can cut this pork, now it they only would!
Copyright© 1994
Mitch Rice
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