Joni Mitchell - Ethiopia lyrics

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

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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 TV
Ethiopia
You suffer with such dignity
Ethiopia
A TV star with a PR 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