House Un-American Blues Activity Dream-Mimi And Richard Farina

[ti:House Un-American Blues Activity Dream] [ar:Mimi And Richard Farina] [al:Pack Up Your Sorrows, Best Of The Va] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - Mimi And Richard Farina [00:09.19]I was standing on the sidewalk [00:11.21]Had a noise in my head [00:13.42]There were loudspeakers babbling [00:15.73]But nothing was said [00:17.48]There were twenty-seven companies of female Marines [00:21.82]There were presidential candidates in new Levis jeans [00:25.99]It was the red white and blue planning how to endure [00:30.40]The fife drum and bugle marching down on the poor [00:34.18] [00:34.91]God bless America without any doubt [00:38.45]And I figured it was time to get out [00:41.28] [00:42.76]Well I have to believe in between scenes good people [00:47.36]Went and got 'em done in the sun good people [00:51.52]Tourist information said to get on the stick [00:54.94]You ain't moving 'til you're grooving with a Cubana chick [00:58.78] [00:59.28]So I hopped on a plane I took a pill for my brain [01:03.25]And I discovered I was feeling all right [01:06.14] [01:07.49]When I strolled down the Prado [01:09.83]People looked at me weird [01:11.77]Who's that hippy hoppy character without any beard [01:16.01]Drinking juice from papayas [01:17.99]Singing songs to the trees [01:20.16]Dancing mambo on the beaches [01:22.23]Spreading social disease [01:24.36]Now the Castro convertible was changing the style [01:28.71]A whole lot of action on a blockaded isle [01:32.32] [01:32.84]When along come a summons in the middle of night [01:36.90]Saying Buddy we're about to indict [01:39.83] [02:05.82]I went up on the stand with my hand good people [02:10.16]You've got to tell the truth in the booth good people [02:14.21]I started out with information kind of remote [02:18.03]When a patriotic mother dragged me down by the throat [02:22.23]If they ask you a question they expect a reply [02:26.42]Doesn't matter if you're fixin' to die [02:29.45] [02:30.39]I was lying there unconscious feeling kind of exempt [02:34.63]When the judge said that silence was a sign of contempt [02:39.17]He took out his gavel banged me hard on the head [02:42.83]He fined me ten years in prison and a whole lot of bread [02:46.96]It was the red white and blue making war on the poor [02:51.87]Blind mother justice on a pile of manure [02:55.58]Say your prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance every night [02:59.66]And tomorrow you'll be feeling all right ah