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Ok Corral
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Emily Saliers
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We were raised at the OK Corral Yosemite Sam, the Kid and Wild Bill The figures that fired our imagination Original founders of the gunpowder nation We dynamited the political scribes On the sacred rock of the original tribes Hammered a plan to connect to the east And built it on the broken backs of the Chinese So if you wanna know why we're under the gun It's how we were raised and it's where we come from You might take a bullet for a better plan But you can't take the gun from the American The beginning of the forever hurt Stealing black people to suffer our work If I hear you say again, "That was so long ago It's got nothing to do with the cops in Chicago." Then you turn on your TV and you suck up Fox News You hate all the Muslims but you're cool with the Jews Until you sicken with the fervor of your stereotypes Well here comes your party, cause the picking is ripe And if you wanna know why we're under the gun It's how we were raised and it's where we come from You might take a bullet for a better plan But you can't take the gun from the American Slippery slope is how the party line goes Background check, there go the dominoes While you're holed up with your 47's This isn't that century, it's not the British coming Here's some advice and you might wanna try it If you live by it, you die by it You think those weapon makers love your liberty? They're collecting the cash while they're watching you bleed If you wanna know why we're under the gun It's how we were raised and it's where we come from And you might take a bullet for a better plan But you can't take the gun from the American If you wanna know why we're under the gun It's how we were raised and it's where we come from You might take a bullet for a better plan But you can't take the gun from the American The American's hand
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