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Track 9 HOMELESS IN AMERICA: Twenty-One Songs of Social Conscience for the 21st Century
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Top Nashville musicians and vocalists perform 21 songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-
Top Nashville musicians and session vocalists perform songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-war, poverty, health, taxation, immigration, environmental, social security privatization, gun control, negative effects of neo-con and religious 'right' agendas, etc. Genres include country, blues, rock, folk, R&B soul, pop, Native USA, bluegrass, Americana, Southern Rock, Rock-a-Billy and alternative.
Song Info
Genre
Country • Country-Pop
Charts
Peak #432
Peak in subgenre #53
Author
Richard Aberdeen
Rights
2005 Freedom Tracks Music
Uploaded
August 28, 2005
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB • 128 kbps • 4:01
Lyrics
FAVORITE ONE

He walks all alone by the railroad tracks
Carryin' what he owns in a couple of sacks
Our collective thumb keeps pushing him down
Told him many times he's not welcome in town

He doesn’t know he’s a favorite son
Love reaches deeper than tears ever run
Before he was born, his unique heart
Was fashioned in the mural of creation art
He’s a favorite one, in spite of all we’ve done
Oh---Oh, favorite one

Working two jobs ends never seem to meet
She often goes hungry so her babies can eat
Her fatherless son wears torn clothes to school
Where making fun of him's the only golden rule

She doesn’t know she’s a favorite daughter
That someone wants to help her walk on water
We’ve destroyed her faith, treated her with scorn
And made her long regret the day she was ever born
She’s a favorite one, in spite of all we’ve done
Oh---Oh, favorite one

In this fool's gold rush of greed's deception game
The way we treat each other is a dirty rotten shame

And we have no idea we’re a favorite one
Loved before the dawn of a stained creation
What goes around comes back to haunt our children
Generations blinded by generations' sin
We’re a favorite one, in spite of all we’ve done
Oh---Oh, favorite one
Oh---Oh, favorite one
Oh---Oh, favorite one

He walks all alone by the railroad tracks
Carryin' what he owns in a couple of sacks
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