Feed The World
Inspired by Radio Africa – Latin Quarter, Global Warming Bluff – Red Day, The Revolution Could Have Started Then! – Galaxia/Red Day, Did They Know It Was G8 Time? – Galaxia/Red Day and Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band Aid
Written by Steve Wallis, 28/3/2008
Are you hearing only bad news on Radio Africa?
Are you hearing only sad news on Radio Africa?
Apartheid is over but most of the rich in South Africa are white
And to escape township squalor will require another fight
The IMF doesn't care about your plight
Under capitalism, the future’s not bright
Food is rocketing in price
So you can’t even afford rice
CHORUS:
Go on strike for higher pay
And a world where we all have a say
Are you hearing the good news on Radio Africa?
Food shortages are devastating
But many of you are protesting
And there is a strike wave in China
Are they hearing that good news on Radio Asia?
Some are considering revolution
I recommend a PR-based solution
CHORUS:
Go on strike for higher pay
And a world where we all have a say
Food prices rocket in the West too
We’ll go on strike along with you
Did you hear the great news from Latin America?
I’ll tell you the great news from Latin America
In Bolivia, where gas was privatised
Ordinary people in 2005 mobilised
With general strikes, occupations, demonstrations
And blockades across the capital of the nation
They demanded that gas is not private property
In a country where two thirds lived in poverty
There was a Bolivian protest leader called Evo
He is a new Latin American hero
AND HE IS NOW PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA
CHORUS:
Go on strike for higher pay
And a world where we all have a say
It was G8 time
There was a need to be afraid
At G8 time, they plotted so we couldn’t just have fun
And the G8 suits that plotted there were Monsanto’s allies in power
So revolt now, so we’re all in power instead of them
Feed the world
Feed the world
Feed the world
Don’t wait till G8 time
Go on strike
Don’t wait till G8 time again
Do a Bolivia
Don’t wait till G8 time again
Change the world
We won’t wait till G8 time
Change the world
We won’t wait till G8 time again
Change the world
We won’t wait till G8 time again