Come all good people and gather 'round
Let me tell you how it all went down
When a bunch of libertarians came to town
To build their own utopia
They had a certain certainty
Doubt never bothered 'em, no siree
They lived on logic and liberty
In the green hills of New Hampshire
Live free or die trying
You might get eaten by a mountain lion
This old world is gonna leave you crying
So live free or try to live free
They took control of the situation
Banned all the rules and regulations
There would be no more taxation
In their vision of utopia
So, no one came to mend the roads
Streetlights faded and the library closed
And when the garbage overflowed
Bears came sniffin' 'round
Next thing folks started losing their cats
Nothing in the garden but a fresh bear scat
There's a certain logic in acting like that
When you're top of the food chain
Now there's a moral to this affair
If you leave everything to laissez-faire
You may have to wrassle with a bear
In the backstreets of utopia
'Cause freedom can look like something else
A place where everybody has to fend for themselves
Or pretty words trying to cover the smell
Of the stale stench of indifference
Living on logic sounds real good
But people never act the way you think that they should
Bears don't always shit in the woods
And freedom doesn't come for free
Doesn't come for free
Living on logic sounds real good
But people never act the way you think that they should
Bears don't always shit in the woods
And freedom doesn't come for free
The lyrics FREEDOM DOESN'T COME FOR FREE of BILLY BRAGG is also present in the album The million things that never happened (2021)
Billy Bragg è un cantautore, chitarrista e attivista britannico nato a Barking, Essex, nel 1957. La sua musica combina elementi folk, punk e soul con tematiche politiche e sociali nei testi, assimilabile alla tradizione della canzone di protesta. Bragg ha iniziato la sua carriera musicale negli anni '80, influenzato da artisti come Woody Guthrie e Bob Dylan. Il suo stile diretto e le sue canzoni incisive hanno conquistato un pubblico ampio e lo hanno consacrato come uno dei più importanti cantautori britannici. Tra i suoi album più noti figurano "Brewing Up a Storm" (1986), "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry" (1989) e "Mermaid Avenue" (1998), realizzato in collaborazione con Wilco e Ralph Stanley, che rivisita le canzoni inedite di Woody Guthrie. Bragg è anche un attivista politico impegnato nella lotta per i diritti dei lavoratori e contro l'ingiustizia sociale. La sua musica ha sempre riflettuto la sua visione del mondo e il suo impegno civile.
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