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420 to 1 (Just You, Barbara Lee)

by Fred Gardner

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The 911 attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 was carried out by Saudis, mainly (15 of 19). The Bush-Cheney Administration turned it into a pretext for the U,S."shock and awe" attack on Iraq in 2003. Congress voted 420 to 1 in support of war. Alone in opposition was our Congresswoman, East Bay Barbara Lee... Back in the '60s Gruening of Alaska and Morse of Oregon voted no when Lyndon Johnson asked the Senate to escalate the U.S. role in Vietnam.

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In the roar of total loss
REASON lifts a lonely voice
Old Ernst Gruening, Wayne Morse
Trying to give peace a choice
Back when we had a little more democracy
Now it's you Barbara Lee
Just you Barbara Lee,
just you

Underneath the capitol dome
The so-called Representatives
Cheer their leader in the Andover sweater
Yelling Fight, SMITE Evil where it lives
They’ve got what’s called a gang mentality
‘Cept you Barbara Lee
Just you, Barbara Lee,
just you

In the star chamber night
Forgotten are the scents of old Tonkin
Four hundred and twenty to one
For WAR what’s another forty billion?
Where was Barney Frank, Where was Pelosi?
Just you, Barbara Lee,
Just you, Barbara Lee,
just you

HISTORY has a way they say
It sometimes gets repeated
And those who didn’t learn yesterday
Tomorrow might get de- Shshshsh
This is still top-secret in D.C.
‘Cept to Barbara Lee
Just you, Barbara Lee,
just you

all alone.

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released April 12, 2015
words and music: Fred Gardner
production and glockenspiel: Camilo Landau
drums Nick Fishman

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