There Won't Be No Country Music (There Won't Be No Rock 'n Roll)

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[00:17.84] (There Won't Be No Rock 'N' Roll) [00:19.75] (C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis) [00:20.69] Well, it's only gonna be about an hour, friend [00:21.69] 'Til they dam your favorite river [00:22.55] So you can water-ski just one more reservior [00:25.44] And them supersonic ships are gonna take you [00:27.21] 'Cross a sea of pavement [00:29.13] To one more faceless brickyard on the shore [00:32.87] Yeah, it's only gonna be about an hour or so [00:35.65] 'Til they rip off all your mountains, boy [00:37.55] And that one last tired old eagle bites the sand [00:41.30] And all of that high-and-mighty scenery's [00:43.26] Gonna be leveled to the ground, boy [00:45.00] By a bunch a' them mindless strip mines on the land [00:48.89] [Chorus] [00:49.76] So listen well, my brothers [00:50.78] When you hear the night wind sigh [00:52.67] And you see the wild goose flying [00:54.42] Through the gray, polluted sky [00:57.22] There won't be no country music [00:59.17] There won't be no rock 'n' roll [01:01.06] 'Cause when they take away our country [01:02.94] They'll take away our soul [01:12.36] Well, it's only gonna take about a minute or so [01:14.22] 'Til the junkyards fell the prairies, boy [01:16.06] And them smokin' yellow grass fires start to burn [01:19.88] And the warnings on them beer cans [01:21.76] Gonna be buried in them landfills [01:23.65] No deposit, no sad songs, and no returns [01:27.33] Yeah, it's only gonna take about a minute or so [01:29.24] 'Til the factories blot the sun out [01:31.10] You gonna have to turn your lights on just to see [01:35.88] And them lights are gonna be neon, sayin' [01:37.74] "Fly Our Jets To Paradise" [01:39.69] And the whole damn world is gonna be made of styrene [01:43.33] [Chorus] [01:44.38] So listen well, my brothers [01:45.21] When you hear the night wind sigh [01:47.16] And you see the wild goose flying [01:49.95] Through the gray, polluted sky [01:51.86] There won't be no country music [01:53.72] There won't be no rock 'n' roll [01:55.65] 'Cause when they take away our country [01:57.53] They'll take away our soul [02:06.82] Yeah, it's only gonna be about a second, boy [02:08.74] 'Til they take away all'a this country [02:10.61] And they'll tell you not to listen to this here song [02:14.31] And that far-off sound of freedom's [02:16.21] Gonna be an echo from the past [02:18.12] And the final tune is gonna be sad and long [02:21.83] And it's only gonna be about an eye-blink, boy [02:24.69] 'Til they pull out the wool to blind us [02:26.58] So we just can't read all the messages on the wall [02:30.27] But the only words that matter [02:32.16] Oughta be scribbled all over them billboards [02:34.00] In big old black and bloody letters, ten feet tall [02:37.83] [Chorus] [02:38.74] THERE WON'T BE NO COUNTRY MUSIC [02:40.66] THERE WON'T BE NO ROCK 'N' ROLL [02:41.59] 'CAUSE WHEN THEY TAKE AWAY OUR COUNTRY [02:44.38] THEY'LL TAKE AWAY OUR SOUL [02:46.20] There won't be no country music [02:48.19] There won't be no rock 'n' roll [02:50.06] 'Cause when they take away our country [02:51.94] They'll take away our soul [02:53.89] There won't be no country music [02:55.79] There won't be no rock 'n' roll [02:57.53] 'Cause when they take away our country [02:59.40] They'll take away our soul [03:01.36] There won't be no country music [03:04.19] There won't be no rock 'n' roll [03:06.07] 'Cause when they take away our country [03:07.89] They'll take away our soul [03:09.74] 'Cause when they take away our country [03:11.60] They'll take away our soul [03:43.61]