There was a time when the rich did not pay tax Although they lived in mansions while their workers lived in shacks Back then the wise men said as long as enterprise is free The future will be full of great prosperity The sick and unemployed would usually end up on the street Searching through the garbage for something to eat In the age of the robber barons
There was a time when land was handed with both fists From the state right to the industrialists Who profited from war, who profited from peace Who profited from unregulated monopolies Unregulated factories, gargantuan cartels Run by men who knew you'd buy what they had to sell
There was a time when these barons held the strings That controlled the politicians, who'd give them anything There were no consequences, regardless of who died Everybody knew the law was on their side Never far when needed to defend the property Of the Vanderbilts and Stanfords and all those who owned the country
There was a time you could either swim or drown A time when the whole country was one big company town When the human rights to food and housing were empty words Considered by the barons as patently absurd It was the age of laissez-faire, and sometimes I repine I wake up and I think it must be 1899Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
