The Butcher's Sher-the Painted Bird/Daniel Kahn

[00:15.400]Well the world has never been so very small [00:19.200]Though they say there's not enough to feed us all [00:22.580]So you better save a nickel while you can [00:26.210]But it needn't come from someone else's hand [00:29.510]Just take a little extra every day [00:33.400]For honest work deserves an honest pay [00:36.590]You can tell the world you did it by yourself [00:39.890]There's someone you must thank for all his help [00:43.830]You gotta give the butcher his share [00:47.220]You'd like to make believe he isn't there [00:50.810]You'd like to make believe you just receive what's only fair [00:54.260]That no one has to suffer to keep you in your chair [00:57.550]But you gotta give the butcher his share [01:15.260]Let's take a walk around the old bazaar [01:18.690]Where every little thing has traveled far [01:22.180]Every pair of pants and grain of rice [01:25.710]Contains a horror story in its price [01:29.290]A story of the power people wield [01:32.640]A story about factories and fields [01:35.940]Of which you'll never have to be aware [01:39.710]Just as long as the butcher gets his share [01:43.400]You've gotta give the butcher his share [01:46.350]No matter what you buy or what you wear [01:49.700]'Cause no one ever said the distribution would be fair [01:53.400]Blood and guts encoded in the value of the ware [01:56.920]But you gotta give the butcher his share [02:14.770]Well here's another soldier on the train [02:18.320]You hope you won't be seeing him again [02:21.950]And you tell yourself, "My G-d, he looks so young" [02:25.350]You find that you are staring at his gun [02:28.790]And you wonder what this soldier does for fun [02:31.960]You wonder 'bout the things he might have done [02:35.540]Well he was doing them for people just like you [02:39.160]So you better give the butcher his due [02:42.500]You gotta give the butcher his due [02:46.100]'Cause you're lucky that it's him instead of you [02:49.580]Who does the dirty things you hope you'll never have to do [02:53.240]And has to keep his filthy little fingers out of view [02:56.780]But you gotta give the butcher his due [03:14.500]You can build yourself a garden [03:17.590]You can cover it in green [03:21.600]But my dear I beg your pardon [03:24.600]How do you keep your little fingers clean? [03:28.410]You don't have to rally 'round a flag [03:31.990]You may as well solute a dirty rag [03:35.390]And this isn't a defense of evil deeds [03:38.830]It's just a little song about our needs [03:42.490]Our need to feel enlightenment and secure [03:45.880]And civilized and rational and pure [03:49.180]To feel we are decent good and nice [03:52.760]Just as long as the butcher gets his price [03:56.610]You gotta give the butcher his price [03:59.780]No matter what you think of human rights [04:03.400]You've gotta give the butcher his lot [04:06.940]For being everything you think you're not [04:10.420]You gotta give the butcher his share [04:13.800]No matter how you say you really care [04:17.420]'Cause he's the one who did the stealing [04:19.530]And then named you as the heir [04:21.440]Whose filthiness provided you the privileges you bear [04:58.890]You gotta give the butcher his share