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It's America's Favorite Food!

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When I was justa a itty bitty lad
Loaded up the car with my mom and dad
And headed out East for a couple of weeks

There in Nebraska I became aware
In the afternoon heat and the sun's evil glare
of a crop just right for the picking

It grows in rows and rows and rows
Lookin out the window I began to doze
If I didn't say what it was you'd call me roude

It comes in white and it comes in yellow
Fullly mature it's taller than a feller
Staple of the nation
Oyster of the great midwest

I'm talking about corn, corn
In flakes it greets me early in the morn
I'm talking about corn, corn
It's America's favorite food

At first it seemed to good to be true
A food that grows red, white and blue
And when you eat it, it's never fully digested

It started as the staple of the Indian Nation
Now it's the darling of the big corporations
And the possibiolities are still be tested

You can put it in your chickens you can put it in your cows
Farmers who grow it even put it in their plows
Chemists are turing it into some kind of wierd freeking syrup

Up from congress by unanimous motion
It's screwing up the soil and it's killing off the oceans
If you really want to eat it, you'd better not go to Europe

I'm talking about corn, corn
In flakes it greets me early in the morn'
I'm talking about corn, corn
It's America's favorite food

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from Genie, released July 20, 2012

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Steve Skinner Carbondale, Colorado

Music from the heart and head, the campfire and the cosmos.

Steve Skinner is a trendsetting trailblazer who does things the old fashioned way. He spends time in the desert canyon rivers playing concerts for great blue herons and canyon wrens.

The best way to reach him is to sing into a downstream breeze and then hold your breath to hear the answer. ... more

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