Sugar Daddy Candy Corn

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For more see:
Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved, Chapter 3: You
Have Become Mexican
David Bacon: The Right to Stay Home: How US
Policy Drives Mexican Migration

lyrics

In Mexico it used to be
All the fields were full of me
But then came 1994
I heard someone knock down the door
Now corn from the USA
Undersells me every day
Iowa sells three times more than me
Thanks to those big fat subsidies

Sugar daddy candy corn
You treated me with so much scorn
Sugar daddy candy corn
It must feel good to be well born

Tortillas cost a lot more cash
Soon the peso began to crash
Mission Foods got such a big boost
While poverty went right through the roof
More than a million lost their land
Circumstances forced their hand
Driven to the north by free trade
It’s so cold where the money’s made

Sugar daddy candy corn
Made them leave their own newborns
Sugar daddy candy corn
Sure is good to be well born

Nobody comes from thin air
Who really emigrated where?
Said NAFTA, “I have ta come to the south
To smack small farmers in the mouth.”
Then the border will be a maze
Of drugs and guns, smoking, ablaze

Then Clinton did it twice
Pushing Haiti, pushing rice
They called it aid, said “Heaven sent!”
But look where all the money went

Sugar daddy candy rice
Look out for that lower price
Sugar daddy candy rice
Look out for that bad advice
Sugar daddy candy corn
You treated me with so much scorn
Sugar daddy candy corn
It must feel good to be well born

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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 Galinsky,
Lizzy McLamb, & Michael Galinsky

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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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