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Artist: Larry Norman
Canonical path: /larry-norman/feed-the-poor
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Feed The Poor
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Feed The Poor
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You got to feed the poor
They're dying every day
If your momma asks you if you fed the poor
What are you going to say
You got to feed the poor
You must obey
If your pappa asks you if you fed the poor
What are you going to say
There's a little boy lying on the ground
Too weak to lift his head up too sick to make a sound
There's a little baby girl with her eyes shut tight
Her body burns with fever there is no food tonight
You got to feed the poor
You must obey
If the angels ask if you fed the poor
What would you say
You got to feed the poor
They're dying every day
When Jesus asks you if you fed the poor
What are you gonna say
They're cutting down the rain forests so they can feed the cows
Fast food corporations they got no time for ploughs
The wet lands and the swamp lands are being drained away
The animals and bird life they have no place to stay
Insidious conglomerates deny that they're involved
Offshore phoney shell fronts make it hard to solve
With a thousand mile of paper trails winding round and round
While you subpoena affidavits another million trees comes down
Inner city children go to school without a meal
They study this great land of ours it must seem so unreal
In Haiti and in Africa and in your small town too
There's children starving everywhere, they are watching you
And you got to feed the poor
You got to feed the poor
Gotta feed the poor
Feed the poor
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