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[00:20.97]Traveled seven hundred miles
[00:23.69]Crossed the border to the States
[00:26.38]With a plastic bottle running
[00:28.22]Cross the desert in a shake
[00:30.92]Come to English only country
[00:33.69]Hidin' from the minutemen
[00:36.38]Come to make this place my home
[00:39.10]Run a long, long way from then
[00:41.80]Story of a lifetime
[00:44.56]For the minimum wage
[00:52.73]Well, they chased me through the desert
[00:54.56]Then the agents strapped me down
[00:57.32]Then they ask me why in Spanish
[01:00.05]Why you keep on comin' back?
[01:02.75]When I left my dad in Jersey
[01:06.48]And my sister in Des Moines
[01:09.17]They've been workin' in this country
[01:11.86]Pickin' lettuce, washing floors
[01:14.58]Story of a lifetime
[01:17.36]For the minimum wage
[01:24.52]Well, they raised me to eight dollars
[01:27.21]'Cause I washed the dishes fast
[01:30.95]Well, the boss, he got me workin'
[01:33.64]On the porch and in the back
[01:35.48]Then I wash the dish and rinse it
[01:38.15]Then I go home late and sleep
[01:40.99]Well, I need to be awake now
[01:43.62]'Cause I walk out in my sleep
[01:46.38]When I see that black van comin'
[01:48.13]Then I know I'm sure to run
[01:51.88]Goddamn them agents caught me
[01:53.65]Cuffed me on the spot
[01:57.33]For the minimum wage
[02:29.07]No one forced the boss to hire me
[02:31.87]But it's nearly been fifteen
[02:34.55]When I left my baby cryin'
[02:37.26]With a promise in my skin
[02:39.06]On the outskirts of L.A.
[02:42.66]I recite a native poem
[02:44.56]Million hands, ten thousand years
[02:47.22]It's the season for the crop
[02:49.99]It's my people doin' the pickin'
[02:52.63]In the valley of the dolls
[02:55.45]It's a decent job to work at
[02:58.14]Any day I'll take this job
[03:00.88]Ethiopian, Colombian, Pakistani, Cantonese
[03:06.33]Every man that I run into
[03:09.02]All the kitchens on the strip
[03:11.74]And they're pluggin' in them hours
[03:14.50]Smilin' in their dreams
[03:17.28]They're a long, long way from home now
[03:19.97]But they lookin' to be free
[03:22.62]California, Alabama and Missouri, Oregon
[03:27.23]They been workin' like their fathers were
[03:29.92]A long, long time ago
[03:32.61]For the minimum wage
[03:35.39]For the minimum wage
[03:49.01]For the minimum wage
[03:50.83]For, for, for, for the minimum wage
[03:54.47]It's a bumpy road to ride in
[03:56.25]But I'll take it anytime
[03:59.92]It's a bumpy road to take
[04:02.62]But I'll take it day
[04:04.48]It's a bumpy road to take
[04:08.09]But I'll take it anytime
[04:12.60]For the minimum wage
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