MIGUEL

(Music: MICHELLE, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)

Miguel, Ma Bell
These are words that go together well
Poor Miguel

Miguel works on a farm
Controlled by an agribusiness monopoly
Kind of like Ma Bell

He hoes acres and acres of lettuce
Long rows of broccoli
For people he will never see
'Cause when a thing gets big
Control of it
Falls to fewer and fewer hands

Miguel, Ma Bell
How we can turn this around I can hardly tell
Mi Miguel

He's a landless descendant of farmers
Earth whispers in his ear
Can he afford to hear?
'Cause this kind of farm
Causes alarm
To every living thing

He's so blue ...

The doctor believes it is cancer
Those grapes you spray each spring
He would give anything
For the day to come
When a daughter or a son
Would be safe from such things

Miguel, Ma Bell
All to put the food upon our shelves
Our own shelves

If it were up to me
I'd do it differently
Because I think about you
Mi Miguel

Comments: This one has been denied airplay ever since it was released. The Beetless claim to have no idea why. They did make a noticeable temporary retreat from "difficult subjects" after the controversy surrounding MIGUEL.

 
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)