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Coca​-​Cola

from El Pulpo by John Davis & the Cicadas

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Mark Pendergrast, For God, For Country, and
For Coca-Cola
Blackmon, Douglas, Slavery By Another Name:
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans
From the Civil War to World War II.

lyrics

Coca-Cola you came just in time
Pemberton recalled his Coca Wine
Coca-Cola you still contained
Just a bit of cocaine
Coca-Cola you changed DNA
7X is pure or so you say
Tome Coca-Cola
Teme Coca-Cola
Tome Coca-Cola
La Chispa de la Muerte

Atlanta never learned to organize
You hit every strike between the eyes
Mao’s Little Red Book slandered you
You bought Inka Cola of Peru
Coca-Cola you’re a germicide
Sanitizing bugs way down inside

Tome Coca-Cola
Teme Coca-Cola
Tome Coca-Cola
La Chispa de la Muerte

Coca-Cola you turn our heads
The Depth Boys made Santa white and red
The bottle named for Mae West
Coca-Colonized every address
Woodruff had the cash to spread your fame
Thanks to Slavery by Another Name

I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world a coke
And keep ’em company
Perfect harmony in every dream
Here comes a jersey off the back of Mean
Joe Greene

Coca-Cola you bribed public schools
Talking Congress down from health code
rules
Coca-Cola Colonels World War 2
Dictators never really bothered you

Tome Coca-Cola
Teme Coca-Cola
Tome Coca-Cola
La Crispa de la Muerte

credits

from El Pulpo, released October 20, 2017
Drums: Andrew Levi-Hiller
Bass: Peter Hughes
Trombone: Jeb Bishop
Guitars, Keyboards: John Davis
Backing Vocals: Wendy Allen, Fiona Galinksy,
Michael Galinsky, Kelly McLamb

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John Davis & The Cicadas Durham, North Carolina

John Davis is a musician who works solo, with Folk Implosion, with a backing band called the Cicadas, and with Dennis Callaci. He also works on defending and transforming public education as a teacher - organizer with the Durham Association of Educators. ... more

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