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Building Uptown

from Busted - Songs for Johnny by Benny K

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This is for cotton pickin' hands, natural disasters and other things on TV.

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There's faces of millions of people
Stained from the work of a day
Who don't have enough to buy food with what they call pay
There's factories eating the cropland
And Villages turned into slaves
And we're told that atrocities don't really happen these days
And it's so cold
There's a building uptown and it shimmers
As it's standing up into the sky
There's a man sleeping below in the shade of a sign
There's fences surrounding the ghetto
And you can't get out once you're inside
I'd love to stop by for a chat
I've got things on my mind
And it's so cold
So go home yankee boy
Let a flock of geese carry you away
And go home yankee girl
Let your sorrow wash into the sea

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from Busted - Songs for Johnny, released March 26, 2010

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Twin Cities song and dance man, Benny K, composes and performs for the folk heart of the north.

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