{"id":1776,"date":"2015-01-04T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2015-01-04T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:12:35","slug":"immigrant-rights-mcnamaras-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/immigrant-rights-mcnamaras-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Rights (McNamara&#8217;s Band)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>tune: McNamara\u2019s Band<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, we ARE the might empire, We pick and choose our guests,<br \/>\nEuropeans welcome here \u2013 But Mexicans are pests.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re ALL in love with family \u2013 The Mexicans who come to work<br \/>\nMust leave their children home.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHORUS:<br \/>\nStand up and fight for immigrant rights<br \/>\nThey come to work \u2013 don\u2019t slam the door<br \/>\nStand up and shout with all your might<br \/>\nWe\u2019re all created equal.<br \/>\nNot some less and others more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I HAVE a friend who\u2019s Mexican \u2013She brightens up my day.<br \/>\nShe wishes she could visit home \u2013 But danger marks the way.<br \/>\nWar profiteers such all the cash \u2013 And we see that as fine.<br \/>\nA Mex\u2019can crossing the RIO Grande \u2013 Is a very serious crime.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHORUS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free traders like to build a wall \u2013 So only cash gets through.<br \/>\nIf all the riches travel north \u2013 The people will come too.<br \/>\nCorn used to be a source of life \u2013 And rural people thrived.<br \/>\nBut now it\u2019s a commodity \u2013 We go north to survive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CHORUS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tune: McNamara\u2019s Band Oh, we ARE the might empire, We pick and choose our guests, Europeans welcome here \u2013 But Mexicans are pests. We\u2019re ALL in love with family \u2013 The Mexicans who come to work Must leave their children home. CHORUS: Stand up and fight for immigrant rights They come to work \u2013 don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}