BEN BOSTICK

Deep in the valley

I was raised to be a man

Great central valley

Where a man ain’t worth a damn

They cut my pay

To minimum wage

 

How is a family

Meant to survive on ten an hour

A wife and a baby

And a man with no power

 

So yes I’m guilty

But I ain’t sorry for what I done

I needed the money

More than the men I took it from

I didn’t mean

To hurt no one

 

So what’s gonna happen

Mister, to my wife and son

When I go to prison

I didn’t mean to hurt no one

 

Deep in the valley

Where the grapes of wrath are sown

Great central valley

Where the weeds are overgrown

And they burn

And they burn