How About You?

         (Cant You See This System's Rotten Through And Through) 

         A song by Jim Garland

         How well do I remember how class struggle brought me through
         When I came out on strike in 1932 
         They brought their thugs against us the State Militia too 
         And kicked us in the gutter that's me and you 

         Chorus
         How about you? How about you?
         Can't you see this system's rotten through and through?
         It brings millions to the bosses to the capitalistic few
         And exploits the toiling workers like me and you

         We'll build a brand new system that's one thing that is true
         The boss will have to work just like me and you
         We'll all have homes to live in and a job to work at too
         And there'll be no one to rob us that's me and you

         Notes

         Jim Garland was an organiser for the miners in Kentucky in the 1930's.
         He came from a songwriting family, his two sisters being the famous Aunt Molly Jackson and Sarah Ogan Gunning.
         Jim wrote a number of songs including I Dont Want Your Millions Mister. 

         I first got the song from Peggy Seeger when I was researching music for Cinema Action in London in the early
         1970's. My memory of the tune was somewhat hazy and evolved, with the help of a banjo, into what's presented
         here. The words are much closer to the original! I recorded the song on the "Union Is Strength" CD in 1996. 

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