{"id":3158,"date":"2016-07-23T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=3158"},"modified":"2016-07-23T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:35:07","slug":"lyrics-sultana-a-living-wage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=3158","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: sultana &#8211; a living wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd:\u00a0Sultana<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 6: A Living Wage<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Looking back 200 years<br \/>\nThe farmers plowed the great frontier<br \/>\nTo their sons through sweat and tears<br \/>\nThey gave a better life<br \/>\nGradually the city called<br \/>\nWith the big machines<br \/>\nAnd the factory walls<br \/>\nSome felt big and others small<br \/>\nBut all were sure to thrive<\/p>\n<p>Around the world the others came<br \/>\nTo flee the pain and feel the flame<br \/>\nAnd for a time the promise reigned<br \/>\nAnd the dream was not denied<br \/>\nBut greed became the loudest noise<br \/>\nThe little man had little voice<br \/>\nAnd still today so little choice<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no place left for pride<\/p>\n<p>In this land of opportunity<br \/>\nWhere men are bought and sold<br \/>\nWhere they used to claim<br \/>\nThe streets were paved with gold<br \/>\nEvery year a hundred thousand<br \/>\nChildren come of age<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<\/p>\n<p>Making steel and making cars<br \/>\nBehind the wheel inside the bars<br \/>\nThe money burned like cheap cigars<br \/>\nIn the land of wealth and fame<br \/>\nDigging coal and laying rail<br \/>\nTwo good wars and a couple failures<br \/>\nCould never tip the justice scales<br \/>\nAnd no one felt ashamed<\/p>\n<p>But the mines and mills<br \/>\nAnd railroad jobs<br \/>\nHave all but gone away<br \/>\nWith legacy so many felt betrayed<br \/>\nEvery year a hundred thousand<br \/>\nChildren come of age<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<\/p>\n<p>Well the old folks speak of better times<br \/>\nIn the distant yesterday<br \/>\nWhere a man could feed his<br \/>\nFamily on his pay<br \/>\nEvery year a hundred thousand<br \/>\nChildren come of age<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<br \/>\nTell me do they have a right<br \/>\nTo a living wage<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2016 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWords &amp; Music by Kyle Aughe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd:\u00a0Sultana track 6: A Living Wage Looking back 200 years The farmers plowed the great frontier To their sons through sweat and tears They gave a better life Gradually the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3132,"parent":3123,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3158","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3158\/revisions\/3159"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}