[Newspoetry] It was a silly year.

[Paul Kotheimer]

FrankenFood Doxology

--to the melody of the traditional hymn "Doxology".  inspired by the
"Wobbly Doxology" and the "Lumberjack's Prayer," as found in <Songs of the
Workers...>


Gosh, all our foods have been deep fried
and gen-et-IC-'lly  modified
and every thing we ever ate
had monosodium glutemate ...inside.

Our beef cows eat their own fe-CES (yuck!)
and give us all mad cow disease.
The milk we feed our kids, our own,
is laced with bovine growth hormone ...oh, no.

The corn and wheat we sorely need
cannot be grown from natural seed
because the land on which we toil
is blighted by depleted soil ...What next?

Those corp'rate jerks who profit so
from pois'ning us have got to go!
Our big priority should be
to feed us all sustainably ...right now.

So that is why we sing to thee
this FrankenFood toxology.
Let's organize and not retreat,
but first let's have a bite to eat ...Bon Appetit!

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CHORDS (strum one per syllable, pretty much):

G | Em Bm C D | Em D G . | . . . G |

  | Em G D Em | Am G D . | . . .Em |

  | D G D G | C D7 G . | . . . D |

  | G Em Am Am | G D G . | . . . . | ...| C    | G   :||



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