Monday, July 13, 2009

Hemp Anthem, a song for the movement

Hemp Anthem by David Piller

Hey now, what are we gonna do, now we've seen an Inconvenient Truth? 

It's time to shake off all the sand, rise on up and take a stand.

We all know that we're facing problems.  Open minds will be what helps us solve them.

We've got to put all our options on the table, 

As we try to chart a  course to help our planet grow more stable.

Hemp's a crop you've all heard about before. 

The last time we could grow it here was during the Second War.

Since that time Congress has chosen to ignore it.  A course of action that we cannot afford.

Hey now, what are we gonna do, now we’ve seen an Inconvenient Truth?

It’s time to shake off all the sand, rise on up and take a stand. 

You know we’ll have to take it to the streets, to let our farmers grow H-E-M-P.

Anything that we make with cotton, wood or oil,

Can be made from a plant that springs up from the soil.

It doesn't require tons of toxic pesticides, 

Unlike those cotton crops where they spread it far and wide.

We've got to stop the logging of so much of our forests, 

Let's plant hemp instead and we can reap a thrice yearly harvest. 

Hemp's potential is beyond our imagination.  Won't you help me, in waking up the Nation?

Hey now, what are we gonna do, now we’ve seen an Inconvenient Truth?

It’s time to shake off all the sand, rise on up and take a stand. 

You know we’ll have to take it to the streets, to let our farmers grow H-E-M-P.

If you take a look at causes Environmental, what you’ll find are lots of scattered causes local.

The way I see it we’ve been like a shotgun shell, trying to hit far-off “Target Sustainable”.

We’ve got to mold our selves into a bullet, then this target, I know that we can hit it.

Let’s join together and bring hemp into the fore,

Then we’ll really help the Earth’s health to restore.

Hey now, what we’re going to do, now we’ve learned Hemp’s Convenient Truths,

We’re going to shake off all the sand, rise on up and take a stand.

Someday we will take it to the streets to let our farmers grow H-E-M-P.

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