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Number 45’s Immigration Crimes

Tune: Billy Boy, Billy Boy
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: A below Middle C
Written: January 1, 1970
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Number forty five is back and continues to ransack

everything that our nation holds dea-ear.

He’s proceeding to attack immigrants both brown and black.

He just orders ICE to make them disappea-ear!

We deport those who come from places where we are the ones

who’ve created their country’s devastation…

where we sent our C I A to oust lead-ers who won’t play

a-a-long with our corp‘rate exploi-ta-tion.

In ad-di-tion, we’re the worst of of-fen-ders on the Earth

in per ca-pita car-bon e-mis-sions.

We’ve cre-a-ted the cri-sees that now drive these refu-gees

to our bor-ders where we deny ad-mis-sion!

Number forty five sends folks back to pla-ces they have fled

and con-di-tions where they could end up dea-ead.

It is ra-cist and it’s wrong, and we’ll keep singing this song

til all ref-u-gees are wel-comed here in-stea-ead!