Stateside Pioneer

http://www.pioneerwomanmuseum.com/thestatue.htm

Chorus :

You’ve got to take this freedom train

yes

Lenin was grand

But this way

And that

You’ve got to move your mind

Move your fire-brand;

Raise your hand

Say :  I Am.

Dah-N-Dah-Dah-N- Dah-Dah-N-N-Dah

Verse 1

When the Tsar wore his crown

Pogroms came; pogroms followed

The Deniers clutched

to fictions

to  their bottles

Filled with

Vodka

Chorus

You’ve got to take this freedom train

Yes; Lenin was grand

But this way

And that

You’ve got to move your mind

Move your fire-brand ;

 Raise your hand

Say :  I Am.

Dah-N-Dah-Dah-N- Dah-Dah-N-N-Dah

Verse 2

Time’s a plenty at this Dacha;

This Phoenician station

Where the station Chief

Blows his whistle

To prove his thistle

Interlude:

Our Old ways

Become

Our New yearnings;

Pioneering pathways;

Sojourn’s Truth :

rails rally Our

reasons

Have you found any Freedom?

Mother Russia yearns

wants to know.

Chorus

You’ve got to take this freedom train

Yes.

Lenin was grand

But this way

And that

You’ve got to move your mind

Move your fire-brand;

Raise your hand

Say :  I Am.

Dah-N-Dah-Dah-N- Dah-Dah-N-N-Dah

Verse 3

You can’t afford

To place all your bets

On doubt —

 Ain’t no lender;  credit union or bank

Will paper a trail

For that Soviet-style

Doubt.

Believe.

Say : I Am

[Spoken]One more time : Hinenni.