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( Tax protest song lyrics / anti-tax movement )
DEATH OR TAXES
( Ed & Elaine Brown )
Copyright © 2007 - mickterry.com

You've got OK; you've got Waco;
you've got Ruby Ridge,
disasters laying claims above the law.
Now, there's Plainfield in New Hampshire adding to that list,
and a growing fam'ly set against government sprawl.

    It's come to
    DEATH OR TAXES: one's preferred to the other.
    DEATH OR TAXES, it's here you make your stand.
    DEATH OR TAXES, your rantings may be smothered,
    but will you become more martyred ones
    in this "freedom land"?

You've got rhetoric; you've got postures;
you've got desp'rate ones
defending your convictions and beliefs.
Tax protesters and anarchists toting lots of guns,
all gathered for this show-down, no- retreat.

    CHORUS

        Walking the dog, a house guest spots a convoy,
        and confronts the armored lawmen closing in.
        This dialogue may have stopped their plans to destroy,
        may have saved the lives of those besieged within.

You've got solar, you've got ammo;
you've got stockpiled food,
enough to keep the lawmen all at bay.
'til they tire of all this waiting, shut you down for good.
And who will be the big winner on that darkened day?

    CHORUS

Copyright © 2007  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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7-9-09:
Ed & Elain Brown convicted of weapons & other violations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_and_Elaine_Brown

10-4-07:
Ed & Elain Brown arrested w/o violence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_and_Elaine_Brown

7-20-07:
Plainfield, NH, convicted tax protesters Ed & Elaine Brown
defy IRS in the "Live free or die" state,
attracting media attention & many supporters from anti-government,
anti-tax, pro-gun contingents, including Randy Weaver. *

4-19-95:
OK Bomber Timothy McVeigh blew up Murrah Federal building
in Oklahoma City, commemorating Waco.

4-19-93:
David Koresh & Branch Dividian sect all killed in fire while under
siege by FBI & ATF with warrants for illegal weapons in Waco, TX.

8-21-92:
* Randy Weaver shot, wife & son killed by US Marshals & FBI
with warrants for illegal weapons in Ruby Ridge, ID.

To other death song lyrics:   GET IN LINE
To other crime song lyrics:   FORTY BIBLES
To other police song lyrics:   IT'S JUST A JOB
To other city song lyrics:   CAHUENGA, TOPANGA
To other state song lyrics:   CALIFORNIA SCREAMIN'
To other George W. Bush song lyrics:   LAME DUCK
To other political song lyrics:   HOCUS POTUS
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LET ME BUY YOU BREAKFAST
BRIDGE ON CHAPPAQUIDDICK
APATHETIC ABOUT YOUR ETHICS
FATAL FRIENDS & FATTENING FOE
GASOLINE PRICES WERE PLUNGING
JIMMY CARTER SENDS ME LETTERS
700 BILLION MAY BE CHUMP CHANGE
DICK CHENEY ASKED ME TO GO HUNTING
HALF A HEARTBEAT AWAY (SARAH PALIN)
I WASN'T MAKING ADVANCES (SENATOR LARRY CRAIG)
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