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Immigration Nation

from Troubled Times by Mike Ward: Psychosongs

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“Immigration Nation” focuses on the fact that we are all immigrants (or descendants thereof) and it is how this country was built.

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IMMIGRATION NATION

It’s 4am and we’re rolling out of bed
scraps on the table so the little ones are fed
Wait on a corner in winter colds bite
Hoping for work and that we make it home tonight

Dangerous conditions. 100 mile bus rides.
Work still gets done even done with pride
Labor in shadows keeping our head down
Making two dollars a day in this All-American town

CHORUS Immigration built this nation
For those who dared to dream
Intoleration will tear it down
Rip it apart at the seams

Today ICE agents ate at Rosa’s café
walked in the kitchen and took the cook away
Done nothing wrong …still has no rights
Some days we wonder if it’s really worth the fight

Nothing to share in this bountiful land
Grown with the dirt ground deep into our hands
Standing on both sides with a bird’s eye view
the little hope that was in our hearts…that's gone too

CHORUS


BREAK: Picking your crops…cleaning your table tops 

Washing your floors….even fighting your wars
Collecting trash….under the table cash
Watching your kids….like our mothers did

CHORUS

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from Troubled Times, track released October 7, 2022
Mike Ward- Lead Vocals. Backing Vocals and Acoustic Guitar

David Roof- Stand Up Bass

Aaron Markovitz- Archtop Guitar, Electric Baritone Guitar

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mike ward Detroit, Michigan

Lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs. Those are what singer-songwriter Mike Ward loves to create. Living in Detroit, Mike grew up listening to Irish music. Influences are Jason Isbell, Bruce Springsteen and John Prine. His writing echoes along empty sidewalks, on country backroads, in family portraits, and in the thin lines between joy and tragedy, love and loss, past, present and future. ... more

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