My Father Is A Carpenter

My Father Is A Carpenter

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My father is a carpenter 

A working man is he 

Saves up all his money 

For future across to sea

This land is hard for living 

When there's no bread 

Upon the table

People are mourning

They spin a weary fable

I'll hop on the southbound ship 

My father and me

Start up a new life 

In a land across the sea

Like Moses out of Egypt

Parting the Red Sea 

We'll head to the chosen land 

A place where we are free 

Because this land is hard for living

When there's no bread upon the table

The people are mourning 

They spin a weary fable 

I'll hop on the southbound ship 

My father and me

Start up a new life 

In a land across the sea

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Written many moons ago when visiting an Quechua indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. 

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David Arndt 2022

Artwork DJ Yo Soy