Laurie Anderson - Finnish Farmers lyrics

During WWI I, the Russians were testing
Their parachutes sometimes
They didn't open at all
And a lot of troops were lost this
Way during the invasion of Finland
Hundreds of troops were dropped during
The middle of winter as
Usual, some of the chutes didn't open and the
Troops fell straight down into the deep snow
Drilling holes fifteen
Feet deep the Finnish farmers would
Then get out their
Shotguns, walk out into their
Fields, find the holes, and fire down them

During the 1979 drought in the Midwest
The American farmers began to rent
Their property to the United
States government as sites for missile
Silos they were told:
Some of the silos contain Minutemen
And some do not some are designed to
Look like ordinary corn and grain silos
The military called these Decoy Silos
But the farmers called them
The Scarecrows the government
Also hinted that some of these silos
Might be connected by hundreds of miles of
Railroad in an underground shuttle system

This is the breadbasket these are the crops
The shot heard round the world

The farmers, the Minutemen
The farmers, the ones who were there
Breadbasket melting Pot
Meltdown shutdown