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Jimbo Scott - Live Free

from For A Better Life by Various Artists

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lyrics

She came across the water with her brother and her daughter
in a boat they called a coffin on the sea,
They left their home in Dublin when the landlord killed her husband,
said the land was going to another lease,
And there at Ellis island they misspelled her name O’Brian
sent her brother to the railroad company,
Everywhere she went the so called natives cursed her head
but she determined that she wasn’t gonna leave,

Oh Mama! All I wanna do is live free!
Oh Mama! Piece of the American Dream!

He came to San Francisco and was greeted with a pistol
and was told to take a trip across the Bay,
They put him in a room and told him he’d be leaving soon
and then for months he had to watch the weather change,
Released into a culture that would label him a vulture
and restrict where he could make a decent wage,
He held on to a hope that one day he could make a home
and then his kids would get to see a different age

Oh Mama! All I wanna do is live free!
Oh Mama! Piece of the American Dream!

They come from all directions but the reasons always fit the same themes,
And if we’re the greatest country, what have we to fear from those in need

She came up to the border and encountered standing orders
it’s against the law for her to cross a line,
They said she’d be a burden and she might commit a murder
so we have to keep her on the other side,
She left the old republic ‘cause the violence was ugly
and she had to find a way to stay alive,
Every step she takes she knows she’s found a better way
and so she keeps her steady eyes upon the prize,

Oh Mama! All I wanna do is live free!
Oh Mama! Piece of the American Dream!
Oh Mama! All I wanna do is live free!
Oh Mama! Piece of the American Dream!

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from For A Better Life, released December 3, 2019
By Jimbo Scott
www.jimboscottmusic.com
Remastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound, Oakland CA

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annie bacon & her OSHEN Ann Arbor, Michigan

Annie Bacon is a songwriter musician in Michigan. She aches for a more empathic humanity + her creativity orbits around this. She also composed a Folk Opera.

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