MI Song

If you live in Michigan / you’ve gotta drink the water / you’ve gotta eat the sows, you gotta / til your own land / If you live in Michigan / you gotta admit the world is an ocean / you gotta pay for indigenous sorrows / you gotta hold your own soft hand

Wild oak, wild oak, wild oak / Wild oak tree / Wild oak, wild oak, wild oak / You opened over me

If you live in Michigan / you gotta save to see a dentist / fight to keep the factories burning / you gotta chop down all them trees / If you live in Michigan / I sure am glad to know you / Bring your rusty tears behind and won’t you / share ‘em all with me

Wild oak, wild oak, wild oak . . .

If you live in Michigan / you gotta get out by December / clear a way across the water / just to find a place to stand / If you stay in Michigan / I sure am glad to know you / Won’t you teach me what you did so you could / hold your own soft hand

Wild oak, wild oak, wild oak . . .