Name: It's A Long Way Down To The Soupline by James L. Giddings
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: The lyrics of this song were written by Joe Hill in 1915. The tune is a very popular World War I song that is still sung. As with many songs of that era, few people now living know the verses, but everyone knows the chorus.

Scarborough Fair

Anyone who says a national liberation movement is about something other than land and freedom is probably trying to distract you from seeing the obvious.

Land and Freedom

The lyrics of this song were written by Joe Hill in 1915. The tune is a very popular World War I song that is still sung. As with many songs of that era, few people now living know the verses, but everyone knows the chorus.

It's A Long Way Down To The Soupline

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The integrity of the Democratic primaries is in question again, as it was when Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic Party nomination. Democracy Now reported voter suppression in its March 5 segment "The New Poll Tax? Long Lines and Closed Polling Stations Hurt Black, Latinx & Student Voters in Texas and California."  Discrepancies between exit polls and computerized tabulations have also been reported. KPFA's Ann Garrison worked the polls in Alameda County, California, and spoke to New York University Professor and election integrity advocate Mark Crispin Miller, author of "A 12-Step Program to Save US Democracy," a one page plan which can be found in his book "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy" or by searching the Web for "A 12-Step Program to Save US Democracy,"

KPFA

Mark Crispin Miller: Don't trust your electronic voting and counting machines

She Remembers The Boy

Safe enough here you're safe enough
safe enough here so don't complain
the night may hold a hundred fears and you may cry a thousand tears
but they'll be dry by daylight my dear 'cause you're safe enough here

safe enough here, you're safe enough
safe enough here so don't complain
for though you know those with tales to tell the official story is all is well
so wave a flag and shout love is love
and make believe that you're fine because it's safe enough here

Not safe enough to hold hands at night or for governments to truly protect our rights
we're mostly accepted through gritted teeth
and sometimes beaten
but safe sometimes is better than not safe at all, and this country is better than most after all

safe enough, is it safe enough, is it safe enough here?
credits
releases June 29, 2020
Written, arranged, performed, recorded and mixed by Elisabeth Flett


Safe Enough is Track 1 on Flett's upcoming EP, 'Barbed Wire Goodbyes'
Produced by TrainTrack Productions

Safe Enough (Single)

Bill Moyers talks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about her decision last fall to start writing small essays on the history behind today’s politics and posting them on her Facebook page as LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN.

It's A Long Way Down To The Soupline

James L. Giddings

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