Tribute to the TRUE HEROES...

I'm not generally a fan of the mosh pit scene, no offense to those of you who might be, but, I was attracked to The Dropkick Murphys by their infusion of traditional Irish elements and their staunch stance toward being a voice and supporter for the true heroes of this world, the working man, sometimes considered the bottom rung on the ladder by the powers that be and the ones who made their fortune on the backs of these very same folk.

So, here is one of my favorite D.K.M. songs for the working man. Speaking of Lives In The Balance, these are the first people to step up because of their firm belief in family & country.

Worker's Song (Handful of Earth)written by Ed Pickford

This one's for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain,
to earn your pay
For centuries long past
for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead
In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed

(chorus)We're the first ones to starve,
we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie in the sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth
And all of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plow
since time first began
And always expected to carry the can.

Lives In The Balance...

LIVES IN THE BALANCE

( See Playlist Above, Track One )

I've been waiting for something to happen

For a week or a month or a year

With the blood in the ink of the headlines

And the sound of the crowd in my ear

You might ask what it takes to remember

When you know that you've seen it before

Where a government lies to a people

And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces

Of the men who send the guns

To the wars that are fought in places

Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.

You hear one thing again and again

How the U.S.A. stands for freedom

And we come to the aid of a friend

But who are the ones that we call our friends--

These governments killing their own?

Or the people who finally can't take any more

And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

There are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces

Of the men who fan the flames

Of the wars that are fought in places

Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President

the same way

They sell us our clothes and our cars

They sell us every thing from youth to religion

The same time they sell us our wars

I want to know who the men in the shadows are

I want to hear somebody asking them why

They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are

But they're never the ones to fight or to die

And there are lives in the balance

There are people under fire

There are children at the cannons

And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne

(c) 1986 SWALLOW TURN MUSIC, ASCAP

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