Banks Are Made Of Marble-Pete Seeger/Tom Glazer

[ti:Banks Are Made Of Marble] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Power To The People - Protest Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Banks Are Made Of Marble - Pete Seeger/Tom Glazer [00:05.08]I've traveled round this country [00:08.76] [00:10.01]From shore to shining shore [00:13.67] [00:14.69]It really made me wonder [00:18.66] [00:19.38]The things I heard and saw [00:23.72] [00:24.36]I saw the weary farmer [00:27.88] [00:28.67]Plowing sod and loam; [00:32.26] [00:33.59]I heard the auction hammer [00:37.24] [00:38.13]Just knocking down his home [00:41.86] [00:42.65]But the banks are made of marble [00:47.23]With a guard at every door [00:50.97] [00:51.73]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [00:56.61]That the farmer sweated for [01:00.42] [01:05.99]I saw the seaman standing [01:09.74] [01:10.88]Idly by the shore [01:14.10] [01:15.01]And I heard the bosses saying [01:19.11] [01:19.67]Got no work for you no more [01:23.83] [01:24.51]But the banks are made of marble [01:29.13]With a guard at every door [01:32.75] [01:33.60]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [01:37.73] [01:38.30]That the seaman sweated for [01:42.22] [01:47.87]I saw the weary miner [01:50.79] [01:51.86]Scrubbing coal dust from his back [01:55.30] [01:56.52]And I heard his children cryin' [02:00.48] [02:01.13]Got no coal to heat the shack [02:04.57] [02:05.77]But the banks are made of marble [02:09.92] [02:10.45]With a guard at every door [02:14.18] [02:14.87]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [02:19.55]That the miner sweated for [02:23.85] [02:32.35]I've seen my brothers working [02:35.74] [02:36.79]Throughout this mighty land; [02:40.20] [02:41.31]I prayed we'd get together [02:45.02] [02:45.78]And together make a stand [02:50.07]Then we mind own those banks of marble [02:54.71]With a guard at every door; [02:59.16]And we'd share those vaults of silver [03:03.87]That we have sweated for