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The Border (3:03): For a long time the United States was known as “A Nation of Immigrants.” Now those fleeing violence in their home countries arrive at our southern border to find barbed wire, walls and gun emplacements.

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For weeks we hid in ditches
For weeks we crawled through fields
For weeks we hid by day
And ran by night
We sweated up the mountains
We shivered through the swamps
‘Til finally the border came in sight

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Across the bloody border
Along the barbed wire fence
The searchlights on the towers
Turn and shine
Are you keeping freedom in
Are you keeping freedom out
With your guns and dogs along the borderline

Lying in the bushes
My daughter by my side
I watch the searchlight
Flashing off the guns
Do I tell her to go back
When there’s nothing left behind
Do I tell her just to close her eyes
And run

CHORUS

Now tell me
Who makes the borders
Who draws the maps
Who strings barbed wire through the land
Who buys the bullets
Who pays the guards
Who puts the rifles in their hands

CHORUS
With your guns and dogs along the borderline

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from I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women​’​s Lives and Struggles, released May 22, 2020

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Saro Lynch-Thomason is a ballad singer, song writer, folklorist, documentarian, and illustrator from Asheville, North Carolina. Her passion for traditional music, people’s struggles and Appalachian traditions calls her to perform, teach and produce media that tell the stories and songs of America’s social history. ... more

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