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( Anti-tax movement song lyrics )
DEATH OR TAXES
Copyright © 2007 - mickterry.com

1: You've got OK; you've got Waco;
you've got Ruby Ridge,
disasters laying claims above the law.
Now, there's Plainfield in New Hampshire adding to that list,
and a growing fam'ly set against government sprawl.

CHORUS:
It's come to death or taxes: one's preferred to the other.
Death or taxes, it's here you make your stand.
Death or taxes, your rantings may be smothered,
but will you become more martyred ones
in this "freedom land".

2: You've got rhetoric; you've got postures;
you've got desp'rate ones
defending your convictions and beliefs.
Tax protesters and anarchists toting lots of guns,
all gathered for this show-down, no- retreat.
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
Walking the dog, a house guest spots a convoy,
and confronts the armored lawmen closing in.
This dialogue may have stopped their plans to destroy,
may have saved the lives of those besieged within.

3: You've got solar, you've got ammo;
you've got stockpiled food,
enough to keep the lawmen all at bay.
'til they tire of all this waiting, shut you down for good.
And who will be the big winner on that darkened day?
CHORUS:

Copyright © 2007  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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7-20-07:
Plainfield, NH, tax protesters Ed & Elaine Brown defy IRS
in the "Live free or die" state, attracting media attention & many
supporters from anti-government, anti-tax, pro-gun contingents,
including Randy Weaver. *
4-19-95:
OK Bomber Timothy McVeigh blew up Murrah Federal building
in Oklahoma City, commemorating Waco.
4-19-93:
David Koresh & Branch Dividian sect all killed in fire while under
siege by FBI & ATF with warrants for illegal weapons in Waco, TX.
8-21-92:
* Randy Weaver shot, wife & son killed by US Marshals & FBI
with warrants for illegal weapons in Ruby Ridge, ID.

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