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496 Build Us A Desert (solo acoustic)

by Mark Shepard

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this is inspired by a number of Youtube videos of another Mark Shepard... Another Mark L. Shepard actually. We're about the same age but he's a farmer in Wisconsin who writes songs on the side. I'm a songwriter in New York who "farms" in my back yard... His idea of "restoration agriculture" combined with the local battle to ban fracking in new york state got this song flowing... This version is NOT suitable for children.

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Gonna Build Us A Desert
(On The Bones of Paradise)
Song #496 | 12/31/2014 | CD: tbd

Mono Cropping
Factory farms
Mega Manure lagoons
Behind Mega Barns

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Frack the future
Frack the past
Frack the aquifers
To extract a little gas

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Mass extinctions
While we watch football games
And debate distinctions
And who to blame

Gonna Build us a desert
On the Bones of Paradise

Anti-biotics
by the ton
build up resistance
like a smoking gun

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Poison water
Poison air
Poison thinking
And we’ll soon be there

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

10 billion chickens sit
In their own shit
To keep it cheap enough
So you’ll buy it…

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

Masive erosion
Toxic flow
And when it’s over
where are we gonna go?

Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise

em | AmSus at 5th fret



Copyright 2014-2015 by Mark Lewis Shepard. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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released February 9, 2018

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Mark Shepard Albany, New York

Welcome to my “Life In Song” project.

Since 1976, I’ve been obsessively and compulsively writing songs. Some of them are inspired by my own life, my attempts to understand love, life, spirituality, peace and justice.

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