There has been a shortage of folk singers. We need them. Yoohoo, Dylan, the times are a changing... again. Woohoo!
I am here to try and fill the void. Since if you stick a fork in me, I am done, and since I can't sing and am clearly stealing from Joni Mitchell to an obvious degree -- I am to sing this as a "fork singer."
Fernsy, an exasperated fork singer, presents:
Chelsea Manning
Woke up, and Bradley Manning was Chelsea Manning, and the first thing that I thought
Was he deserved more, with wig or without,
and the Snowden NSA leaks wrote the words
It came a-teeming down like Hell’s bells, and rapping to us
we were living pipe dreams
ignoring drumbeats of American dream’s doom
Oh, Snowden you couldn’t stay
They’d kill you or keep justice far away
Don’t wear out before the dawn comes
Woke up again, to see Chelsea Manning on CNN
, and the first thing that I saw
Was the sun behind Iron curtains, and red white and blue scrawl on the wall
To hoodwink, terrorize, jail,or banish you,
Isolation in supermax to beckon
Oh, won't you listen
We'll put on the proof
There's a SWAT team with your name on it any unlucky second
Now the curtains stay closed
As Michael Hasting’s Mercedes explodes
And the streets are paved with fear for those who understand
And doves cry
And newspapers lie
Waiting to blow you up and away
Woke up,again, and again saw Chelsea Manning on CNN, and the first thing that I knew
There was milk and toast and honey and a bowls and bowls of rotten apples, too.
And the sun poured in like insult
and confused all my scared senses
Oh, America respect your amendments
And we'll get to imagine a true blue better day
When America's Iron curtain opens
and freedom can make a winning play
I will bring you roses every night and every day.
By candlelight
By jewel-light
If only you will stay
Pretty Public, won't you
Wake up, strive to save Bradley or Chelsea Manning,
and us all,
starting today
The original: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/chelsea+morning_20075290.html