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March 10, 2003

I Will Not Obey

I'm going to cheat again today and just post another quote from Utah Phillips. I've been busy organizing a meeting tonight and my big law enforcement forum tomorrow night.

The quote is actually a song, and I'm not positive that Utah was the original author of it, but I think so. I'll get back to you on that. It's a little abstract, and much better heard than read, but it's still worth posting.

Note: Utah Phillips identifies himself as an anarchist, which makes him more extreme than me. He's strongly influenced by the drama of the early labor movement, and he's basically a pacifist revolutionary. (He's a fascinating person-- buy one of the albums Ani DiFranco made with him, and you'll hear what I mean. He tells engrossing stories about figures and events from the beginning of last century -- the labor organizers and activists on the front lines of hard times and tough struggles.)

Anyway, his views are not necessarily my own is what I'm getting at. But it's still a cool song, and I'm down with most of the sentiments in it. It's meant to be caterwauled, not sung. On the Fellow Workers album, it's accompanied by sparing, ominous music. I also have it on a solo album of Utah's where he does it a capella.

A picture of Utah follows the lyrics.

I Will Not Obey

The new ruling party is holding the aces
The rest of the cards are all missing faces
I'm sorry I can't know you today
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

Give us your sons and give us your daughters
No one is safe or immune from the slaughter
How indifference makes them rage
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

National Guard or freedom fighters
All houses belong to cigarette lighters
But who hides in the smoke?
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

Better perhaps to perish outside of
The bunkers where our generals hide
I turn away and spit
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

Give us the minds of your children to learn
The substance of books we have not yet burned
But can they read the sky for rain?
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

Soon all tyrants will feel our impatience
We choose to create our own combinations
I was always willing to agree
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

The essence of contract is agreement
Not coercion or obedience
And agreement is sacred
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

Spoken:
There are so few wars of people's liberation, for the people have so seldom risen-- only the armed faction. Listen-- the armed faction lies; they recreate the state through their action. When the people rise, it is not they, but the state which dies.

I sing this song for the prisoner's release
Most of all now for the new State Police
You see the guns have changed hands -- again
What can one say?

"I will not obey!"

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Photo from UtahPhillips.org

This isn't the last you'll hear from me about Utah. I'm on a Utah kick lately. I feel like he's someone everyone should listen to, saying things that not many people bother to say. Not in the song above particularly, but in general he tells the stories that don't otherwise get heard much, and in a truly engaging way. He's hard not to like, even if you think he's a wingnut. He gets immense respect from his (and my) local Nevada Countyfolk...he's one of this county's most honored residents, I'd say. And rightly so.

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