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A tribute to Zimbabwe farmers

August 25, 2003

Beloved farmers of Zimbabwe
We will always honour you
Though they seek to crucify you
Your courage keeps on shining through.

You built homes and schools and clinics,
Created jobs for all the Hands;
From virgin bush and rough beginnings
You've developed rich and verdant lands.

Courageous farmers of Zimbabwe
They say you stole their land away:
Instead you used those raw ingredients
To bake a cake from unused clay.

Of those ingredients there are a-plentry
For all to make their special cake;
But they aren't prepared themselves to bake it:
It's yours, complete, they wish to take.

Beloved farmers of Zimbabwe
Who will feed the masses now?
Now they beat and persecute you...
Who will safely guide the plough?

Who'll protect the trees and wildlife
From the cruel and callous hand?
Who will plant and feed and nurture
The farms of this most glorious Land?

Who'll employ those many workers
Who're now filled with such deep despair?
Who'll patch them, feed them, pay them all
If you are gone, no longer there?

Beloved farmers of Zimbabwe
Take heart, and keep your heads held high;
No man can steal your honour from you...
That special spark will never die!

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