"Hemp the Environmentally Sustainable Alternative"

It's Not About The Money
In the Key of "Dm"

Lyrics, Music and Recording by Charlie Sohmer ©2002
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CHORUS

It's not about the money, it's never 'bout the money

A navy's might will often reach much farther than the shore

Be it hemp grown in Virginia, or born and baled in Tillsonburg

I can't hide, the taxman's knocking at my door

I flew the flag of a mighty Yankee clipper
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Hand to hand, we fell to British fire

Now free to trade, but only with that Bear

He has all the hemp we require

They promise me my ship, but I am bound by favours

Better to have never left my Massachusetts home

I've sailed by stars at night, and by winds that waxed relentless

Now I sail by George, All Mighty, on his throne

CHORUS

Crushed my leg neath shards of shattered rigging

Left consigned to a life filled with regre
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But I would not be beaten by the British

Now I grow that hemp for myself

They talk of war all along the ST Lawrence

To clam as ours, that coldest of frontiers

Who is this man who hides behind a plow

Leaning on a stump all of his remaining years

CHORUS

I earn respect when they pay me for my cargo

but a law in fashion once, may in fashion be reviewed

It's hard to hide my crop, in the wagon or the field

I am guilty of the growing, I will not stand accused

Seven months I have waited for my trial

and a debtors business can never be restored

they mock my limp, what use have they for cripples,

who supply the sails for that British Man O' War?

It's not about the money, never 'bout the money

A sailor's dream will sink so much deeper than a stone

Be it hemp grown in Virginia, or born and baled in Tillsonburg

Judges steal my profits, and lawyers pick my bones

Charlie Sohmer - Lead vocals, banjo

James Stephens - backup vocals, fiddle

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grew up in Montreal, and have lived in and around Ottawafor the last forty