SINGER: Joni Mitchell

SONG:Ethiopia

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