Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
Vocals
Romeo Stodart, Dave Izumi
Romeo Stodart, Dave Izumi
Banjo
Stephen William Bragg
Stephen William Bragg
Lead Vocals
Jack Valero
Jack Valero
Background Vocals
Michele Stodart
Michele Stodart
Bass
Nick Pynn
Nick Pynn
Fiddle
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Stephen William Bragg
Stephen William Bragg
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Romeo Stodart, Dave Izumi
Romeo Stodart, Dave Izumi
Producer

Lyrics

Come all good people and gather 'round Let me tell you how it all went down When a bunch of libertarians came to town To build their own utopia They had a certain certainty Doubt never bothered 'em, no siree They lived on logic and liberty In the green hills of New Hampshire Live free or die trying You might get eaten by a mountain lion This old world is gonna leave you crying So live free or try to live free They took control of the situation Banned all the rules and regulations There would be no more taxation In their vision of utopia So no one came to mend the roads Streetlights faded and the library closed And when the garbage overflowed Bears came sniffin' 'round Next thing folks started losing their cats Nothing in the garden but a fresh bear scat There's a certain logic in acting like that When you're top of the food chain Now there's a moral to this affair If you leave everything to laissez-faire You may have to wrassle with a bear In the backstreets of utopia 'Cause freedom can look like something else A place where everybody has to fend for themselves Or pretty words tryna cover the smell Of the stale stench of indifference Living on logic sounds real good But people never act the way you think that they should Bears don't always shit in the woods And freedom doesn't come for free Doesn't come for free Living on logic sounds real good But people never act the way you think that they should Bears don't always shit in the woods And freedom doesn't come for free
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