Wishing Chair: Music and Lyrics
Carolina
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c. 2003 Outlaw Hill Music BMI Words and music by Kiya Heartwood
Hawkers peddle t shirts at the game.
For $25 dollars you get to wear a name.
They sew those shirts in Puebla, Mexico.
That's the part we never really know.
Carolina.
800 worked at the Kuk Dong factory.
Some of them lied and said they were 15.
They were making shirts for Reebok and Nike.
8 Universities.
Carolina.
$32 dollars for a 50 hour week.
When they tried to form a union,
five were thrown out on the street.
300 workers occupied the plant.
The police beat them with rubber bats.
Carolina.
When the press heard about what they'd done.
Nike thought they might just cut and run.
See, corporate profit is always the bottom line.
But there's a point when profit is a crime.
Carolina.
Nine months later and a hunger strike.
That maquiladora won their basic rights.
The company saved its face and changed its name.
But I wonder if those colors really change.
Carolina.
Hawkers selling t- shirts at the game.
For $25 you get to wear a name.