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MATRIOT

Fight for your country and what would you be?
The word comes from father: a Patriot.
But stand up for the World and what could we see?
For Mother Earth: a Matriot.

What kind of person won't fight for their country?
But what if your country's the World?

'Love it or leave it', they'll scream and shout.
Just leave it - and be a Matriot.

Old Jesse Winchester, he had to go
In exile up to Canada.
'Fight in Vietnam, Jesse', well, he told them 'No'
They called him a traitor, an ex-patriot.

Vietnam was wrong, now, everyone knows that,
But who's said they're sorry to him?

'Love it or leave it', they'll scream and shout.
Just leave it - and be a Matriot.

'I have no country, I have no place,'
Wrote English writer, Virginia Woolf,
Speaking for women oppressed by the State,
The world was her country, that was enough.

What kind of person won't fight for their country?
But what if your country's the World?

'Love it or leave it', they'll scream and shout.
Just leave it - and be a Matriot.

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