My Thirty Thousand-Billy Bragg and Wilco

[ti:My Thirty Thousand] [ar:Billy Bragg and Wilco] [al:Mermaid Avenue Vol. III] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Thirty Thousand - Billy Bragg and Wilco [00:00.64]Paul Robeson hes the man [00:03.19]That faced the Ku Klux Klan [00:05.17] [00:05.88]On hollow groves golfing ground [00:08.06]His words come sounding [00:09.88] [00:11.30]And all around him there [00:13.92]To jump and clap and cheer [00:16.04]I sent the best the best I had [00:18.60]My thirty thousand [00:20.83] [00:21.98]Well The Klansman leader said [00:23.98] [00:24.59]That Paul would lose his head [00:26.61] [00:27.24]When thirty five thousand vets [00:29.23]Broke up that concert [00:31.35] [00:32.04]But less than four thousand came [00:34.71] [00:35.32]To side with the Klan [00:37.40] [00:37.90]But around Pauls lonesome oak [00:40.02]My thirty thousand [00:42.59] [00:43.51]A beersoaked brassy band [00:45.97]Did snortle round the grounds [00:48.59]Four hundred noblest souls [00:50.57]Westchesters manhood [00:52.06] [00:53.75]And they looked exactly like [00:55.98] [00:56.62]The fleas on a tigers back [00:58.89]Lost fish in the waters of [01:00.78]My thirty thousand [01:03.46] [01:24.71]When Paul had sung and gone [01:26.60] [01:27.24]And the kids and babies home [01:28.90] [01:29.77]Cops came with guns and clubs [01:31.79]And they clubbed and beat 'em [01:33.47] [01:34.69]Well I'd hate to be a cop [01:36.58] [01:37.35]Caught with a bloody stick [01:39.06] [01:39.77]'Cause you can't bash the brains [01:41.78]Out of thirty thousand [01:43.79] [01:44.91]Each eye you tried to gouge [01:47.47]Each skull you tried to crack [01:49.29] [01:49.86]Has a thousand thousand friends [01:51.99]Around this green grass [01:53.89] [01:54.80]If you furnish the skull someday [01:57.03] [01:57.61]I'll pass out the clubs and guns [01:59.46] [02:00.01]To the billion hands that love [02:02.05]My thirty thousand [02:04.42] [02:05.25]Each wrinkle on your face [02:07.76]I know it at a glance [02:09.63] [02:10.36]You cannot run and hide [02:12.26]Nor duck nor dodge them [02:14.02] [02:15.07]And your carcass and your deeds [02:18.01]Will fertilize the seeds [02:19.89] [02:20.40]Of the men that stood to guard [02:22.51]My thirty thousand [02:24.22] [02:25.35]Of the men that stood to guard [02:27.47]My thirty thousand