The audio quality of this YouTube post leaves a great deal to be desired, as do 'most all YouTube posts. It took me several listenings to get it all.
As an aid and a courtesy to those with insufficient patience to dope it out, and because I think everyone should hear the message, I'm adding the words here:
"I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world 35% cotton, 65% poylester
The journey begins in Central America In the cotton fields of El Salvador In a province soaked in blood Pesticide-sprayed workers toil in a broiling sun Pulling cotton for $2.00 a day
Then we move on up to another rung
Cargill A top-40 trading conglomerate Takes the cotton through the Panama Canal Up the Eastern Seaboard Comin' to the US of A for the first time
In South Carolina at the Burlington Mills Joins a shipment of polyester filament Courtesy of the New Jersey petrochemical mills of duPont duPont strands of filament begins In the South American country of Venezuela Where oil riggers bring up oil from the earth for $6.00 a day.
Then Exxon The largest oil company in the world Upgrades the product in the country of Trinidad & Tobago Then back into the Caribbean and Atlantic seas To the factories of duPont On the way to the Burlington Mills in South Carolina To meet the cotton from the blood-soaked fields of El Salvador
In South Carolina Burlington factories hum with the business Of weaving oil and cotton into miles of fabric for Sears Who takes its bounty back into the Caribbean Sea Headed for Haiti this time
May she be one day soon free
Far from the Port au Prince palace Third-world women toil doing piece-work To Sears' specifications for $3.00 a day My sisters make my blouse
It leaves the third world for the last time Coming back into the sea to be sealed in plastic for me
This third-world sister
And I go to the Sears department store Where I buy my blouse On sale for 20% discount
For me, you're right . . . I have a difficult time understanding some lyrics without a written text . . . thanks . . . I've got a challenge for your (perhaps unfair - as most challenges probably are or the challenger wouldn't be comfortable issuing the challenge) but I am working to post something on my favorite first paragraphs of books . . . a first paragraph (in any kind of work) that has a resonance beyond, "hello, sit down, I'll tell you a story . . . " (though some authors have mastered that type of introduction . . . ). Anyway, thanks for the transcript, it helps my appreciation . . . and no, my hands are not clean.
The audio quality of this YouTube post leaves a great deal to be desired, as do 'most all YouTube posts. It took me several listenings to get it all.
ReplyDeleteAs an aid and a courtesy to those with insufficient patience to dope it out, and because I think everyone should hear the message, I'm adding the words here:
"I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world
35% cotton, 65% poylester
The journey begins in Central America
In the cotton fields of El Salvador
In a province soaked in blood
Pesticide-sprayed workers toil in a broiling sun
Pulling cotton for $2.00 a day
Then we move on up to another rung
Cargill
A top-40 trading conglomerate
Takes the cotton through the Panama Canal
Up the Eastern Seaboard
Comin' to the US of A for the first time
In South Carolina at the Burlington Mills
Joins a shipment of polyester filament
Courtesy of the New Jersey petrochemical mills of duPont
duPont strands of filament begins
In the South American country of Venezuela
Where oil riggers bring up oil from the earth for $6.00 a day.
Then Exxon
The largest oil company in the world
Upgrades the product in the country of Trinidad & Tobago
Then back into the Caribbean and Atlantic seas
To the factories of duPont
On the way to the Burlington Mills in South Carolina
To meet the cotton from the blood-soaked fields of El Salvador
In South Carolina
Burlington factories hum with the business
Of weaving oil and cotton into miles of fabric for Sears
Who takes its bounty back into the Caribbean Sea
Headed for Haiti this time
May she be one day soon free
Far from the Port au Prince palace
Third-world women toil doing piece-work
To Sears' specifications for $3.00 a day
My sisters make my blouse
It leaves the third world for the last time
Coming back into the sea to be sealed in plastic for me
This third-world sister
And I go to the Sears department store
Where I buy my blouse
On sale for 20% discount
Are my hands clean?"
For me, you're right . . . I have a difficult time understanding some lyrics without a written text . . . thanks . . . I've got a challenge for your (perhaps unfair - as most challenges probably are or the challenger wouldn't be comfortable issuing the challenge) but I am working to post something on my favorite first paragraphs of books . . . a first paragraph (in any kind of work) that has a resonance beyond, "hello, sit down, I'll tell you a story . . . " (though some authors have mastered that type of introduction . . . ). Anyway, thanks for the transcript, it helps my appreciation . . . and no, my hands are not clean.
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