Ethiopia Lyrics - Singles - Mitchell Joni

Hot winds and hunger cries--Ethiopia 

Flies in your babies' eyes--Ethiopia 

Walking sticks on burning plains 

Betrayed by politics 

Abandoned by the rains 

On and on--the human need 

On and on--the human greed profanes 

Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia 

Your top soil flies away--Ethiopia 

We pump ours full of poison spray--Ethiopia 

Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns 

I hear the whine of chain saws 

Hacking rain forests down 

On and on--insanities 

On and on--Short sighted greed abounds 

Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia 

Little garden planet-oasis in space 

Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand it 

Famine phantoms at the garden gates 

Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia 

Every Sunday on T.V.--Ethiopia 

You suffer with such dignity--Ethiopia 

A T.V. star with a P.R. smile 

Calls your baby "it" while strolling 

Through your tragic trials 

On and on--stupidity 

On and on--the basic needs are defiled 

Good air--good water--good earth 

Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia 

Little garden planet--oasis in space 

Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand the waste 

Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia 

1985 Crazy Crow Music BMI