Lyrics - Ethiopia by Mitchell Joni

Hot winds and hunger cries--
Ethiopia
Flies in your babies' eyes--
Ethiopia
Walking sticks on burning plains
Betrayed by politics
Abandoned by the rains
On and on--the human need
On and on--the human greed profanes
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia
Your top soil flies away--
Ethiopia
We pump ours full of poison spray--
Ethiopia
Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns
I hear the whine of chain saws
Hacking rain forests down
On and on--insanities
On and on--
Short sighted greed abounds
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia
Little garden planet-oasis in space
Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand it
Famine phantoms at the garden gates
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia
Every
Sunday on
T.
V.--
Ethiopia
You suffer with such dignity--
Ethiopia
A
T.
V. star with a
P.
R. smile
Calls your baby "it" while strolling
Through your tragic trials
On and on--stupidity
On and on--the basic needs are defiled
Good air--good water--good earth
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia
Little garden planet--oasis in space
Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand the waste
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia--
Ethiopia© 1985
Crazy
Crow
Music
BMI

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