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My family and I
Left for the promise land
But all that we found
Were more hardships and demand

Working in Chicago
Weeping meat plant floors
Feeling sick just knowing
This will make it to the stores

Pregnant cows with fetuses, dead rats
And animal diseased
Nothing at all is wasted
And the boss is kept quite pleased

But this one job alone
Is not enough to pay the rent
Who knew rent could be so high
With all of us in a tenement?

So off to work went my uncle-in-law
His children, and his wife,
My dying dad did his part
As did my pregnant wife

Later I ended up in jail
My wife and son, they died
So I left everyone behind
And fled to the countryside

Depressed and poor
I finally went back
Only to learn
Chicago doesn’t cut slack

I learned that my family
And gone totally astray
Working hard on
Street corners everyday

I became frustrated
With all the hardships and demands
Until my world was changed
By the most peculiar man

He told me why my life was bad
And told me why it was good
He taught me to fix the things
The government couldn’t, but should

He told me they
Were evil capitalists
And to be happy
I only need be a socialist

These thoughts of joy
Filled all that I know
And in the end we promised
To take back Chicago