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David Rovics
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Before the pioneers came all the way out here
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To set up camp to farm, to hunt and mine
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By the riverbanks others joined their ranks
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And worked the land and forests, rain or shine
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That's how things once were there among the Douglas Fir
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That blanketed the region, far and wide
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It's the story of a mountainside
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Soon the situation changed, lots of lumber mills in range
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And logging was the way men made their way
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Such demand for wood, soon barely a tree stood
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When rain fell down from skies of grey
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Turns out the trees they made the hill, loose mud just won't stay still
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And pretty soon it all began to slide
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It's the story of a mountainside
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Fertile hilltops turned to stone but the secondgrowth had grown
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Decades passed and corporations came
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Some people tried to tell this would not end well
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But when profit rules it's always the same
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There's no valley that's too deep, there's no hill that is too steep
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No regulator's pockets can't be plied
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It's the story of a mountainside
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Once the hill was cut and flayed there were still profits to be made
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By selling land to folks to live out in the country
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With the river still so pretty and there just north of the city
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Go raise your kids in rural harmony
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It was the last place they would go, the last home they'd ever know
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When the hill collapsed and half the village died
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It's the story of a mountainside
David Rovics - Jenin
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