mellowtigger | theme song: signs

Today's theme song arrives here thanks to news from Texas, where a judge ruled that a school district can restrict the length of hair of its male students. This ruling contradicts the recent CROWN Act in Texas that banned race-based hair discrimination. Minnesota passed a Crown Act recently too. A Texas judge has now ruled against a key feature of their law in that state.

I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again before we're finally through these troubles, but please find a way to move somewhere safe. Heed the signs. Until then, enjoy this song in the spirit of longhair solidarity.

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And the sign said, "Long-haired freaky people need not apply".
So I tucked my hair up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why.
He said, "You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do."
So I took off my hat, I said, "Imagine that. Huh! Me, workin' for you!"

Whoa! Sign, sign, everywhere a sign!
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind!
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

And the sign said anybody caught trespassin' would be shot on sight,
So I jumped on the fence, and I yelled at the house, "Hey! What gives you the right?"
"To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep Mother Nature in?"
"If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, Man, you're some kinda sinner."
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And the sign said, "Everybody welcome. Come in, kneel down, and pray."
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a penny to pay.
So I got me a pen and a paper, and I made up my own little sign.
I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinkin' 'bout me. I'm alive and doin' fine."

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I know that a lot of luck has kept me here in this world for so long. Today is nearly done. I kept my belly full all day, my skin warm, and my cat purring in my lap, so I know that today was a good day for me. I wish the same for everyone else in my troubled part of the world and places like it elsewhere. I don't yet have any good ideas for how to make it happen, though.

Stay safe out there.