Back to the Song Library
Nike Town
- Sung to
- Chinatown, My Chinatown
- Written by
- Kay Thode
- Gaggle
- Seattle
No recording on file
Know the tune Chinatown, My Chinatown? You're ready.
Record your gaggle singing it and we'll feature it here.
How to read the marks
Bold word Strong beat
Italic word Inflection / stress
[Chorus] Section label
Tips from the gaggle
- Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
- If the original tune is unfamiliar, look it up first.
- Modify freely. Every gaggle adapts songs to local issues.
SING IT to the tune of Chinatown, My Chinatown
Nike shoes and Starbucks beans
Make millions a day
But workers who produce them
Get starvation pay.
One dollar fifty a day
Is the workers take
For the hundred eighty buck shoes
That Nike makes.
Bean pickers for Starbucks
Also get the shaft
One dollar twenty a day
Forces them to fast.
Nike town, oh, Nike town,
Why don’t you behave,
Share your mammoth profits
With those who sweat and slave.
Starbucks, Starbucks, coffee czars,
You can also share,
With those who pick your beans
Wages that are fair.
Let’s boycott these products
Till there’s decent pay
Corporations can afford
Sixty bucks a day.
♦ ♦ ♦
Written by
Kay Thode
For the
Seattle Gaggle