House the Poor

HOUSE THE POOR
Tune: I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash

With wages low and ever rising rents,
folks live in cars, or hunker down in tents
This is a crisis, and it’s plain to see:
low income homes are what we need

In such a wealthy nation, don’t you think
we’d house the homeless, quick as you can wink?
Stop spending trillions building bombs for war
Let’s build new hous-ing for the poor

When tons of money pour into our state,
why are so many folks in dire straights?
In nuclear bombs, our state is number one
In poverty, we’re bottom rung

New Mexico, let’s solve it! Let’s get down
get down to housing all the poor in town
Let’s do it now – on this we must agree:
Don’t fight the poor – fight poverty
Don’t fight the poor – fight poverty