Bound For Glory
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He walked all over his own growin' lan
From the New York island to the California san
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He saw all the people that needed to be see
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Planted all the grass where it needed to be gree
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And now he's bound for a glory all his ow
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And now he is bound for glor
He wrote and he sang and he rode upon the rail
And he got on board when the sailors had to sai
He said all the words that needed to be sai
He fed all the hungry souls that needed to be fe
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He sang in our streets and he sang in our hall
And he was always there when the unions gave a cal
He did all the jobs that needed to be don
He always stood his ground when a smaller man would ru
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And its Pastures of Plenty wrote the dustbowl balladee
And This Land is Your Land, he wanted us to hea
And the risin'of the unions will be sung about agai
And the Deportees live on through the power of his pe
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Now they sing out his praises on every distant shor
But so few remember what he was fightin' fo
Oh why sing the songs and forget about the aim
He wrote them for a reason, why not sing them for the sam
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