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We Got Ours

from What Goes Around by Greg Hawks

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WE GOT OURS
By Greg Hawks
We make mad money because we can
Wear designer suits and golf course tans
Our gated mansions across this land
Are high above the shifting sand
Politicians ain’t hard to bribe
Who’s elected, we can decide
They pony up and don’t ask why
’Cause there’s not much that we can’t buy
We sell time bombs wrapped up in bows
And clean your clock before they explode
Sold down the river before you know
We’ll come out smelling like a rose
We make our bets as we rig the game
So flush your money right down our drain
Our pockets are deep so make it rain
We feed on suckers, simple and plain
They’re too lazy to even care
Enough to fight for their own share
So trickle down enough scrap and bone
Keep their noses to the grindstone
Keep the government out of the way
And every dog can have its day
Let them starve if they can’t eat
And sweep their skeletons off the street
In wealth we trust, our freedom ring
We won’t stop till we own everything
We create the jobs for the little man
Let his sweat wash his dirty hands
Masters of the sleight of hand
You can’t catch a good flim-flam man
Above the law, can’t go to jail
Because we are too big to fail
Now boom or bust, we’ll speculate
Don’t even try to regulate
You only have yourselves to thank
And we’re still laughing all the way to the bank
We earned our place and you could, too
If you would work like we had to
Now buckle down if you want more
We got ours, now you get yours
Say, buckle down, you want more
We got ours, now you get yours

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from What Goes Around, released April 19, 2015

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Greg Hawks Chapel Hill, North Carolina

In 2001, Hawks released his country album, Fool’s Paradise (YepRoc) to local and national acclaim. The song "Where I'm Not" is featured in the movie Jeepers Creepers.

In 2007 Hawks released a bluegrass album, Coming Home.

Hawks' third album, What Goes Around (2015), is a blend of soul pop, country blues, swampy groove, rootsy country ballads, honky-tonk shuffle, and hard-driving bluegrass. ... more

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