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This is a song by Peter Schon using the Lyrics of Wendell Berry's poem - The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Manifesto.

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The Mad Farmer liberation front Manifesto – Wendell Berry


Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay.
Want more of everything ready-made.
Be afraid to know your neighbours and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery any more.
Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer

When they want you to buy something they will call you.
When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.

Every day do something that won’t compute.
Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace the flag.
Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion – put your ear close,
and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Laughter is immeasurable, Laughter is immeasurable, Laughter is immeasurable
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Near to giving Birth.

Go with your love to the fields. Lie down in the shade.
Rest your head in her lap.
Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail,
the way you didn’t go.
Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

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from Manifesto, released March 25, 2018
Wendel Berry - Lyrics, Rob ten Bokum- lead Guitar and Recording Engineer

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The Mad Farmers Liberation Front Coimbra, Portugal

Peter Schön on Keyboards and Vocals, Rob Gough Drums and Vocals, Kin Thiessen on Guitar, Violin and Vocals. Living in Central Portugal on small farms - with a love for music and the planet they came together to form The Mad Farmers Liberation Front.

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