“Hello my Country
I once came to tell everyone your story
Your passion was my poetry
And your past my most potent glory
Your promise was my prayer
Your hypocrisy my nightmare
And your problems fill my present
Are we both going somewhere?”

—  Harry Chapin

There Only Was One Choice
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)

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