Michigan Hammers

From a pious west
 To the wooded north
 Where the real freaks live
 In the east
 They're beating out a line
 They're kicking in a hole
 They're beating out a line
 Kicking in a hole
 In the sides of the brazen bull
 A calf of gold
 Champagne bath half-full
 Dignity or toil
 Syndicate or gang
 Rose and thorn
 Not all of them on pills
 A chant from the end of the bar
 Being reborn
 In this soil, in this ground
 The Michigan hammers
 Are on their way
 A chant from the end of the bar
 Not all of them on pills
 Break apart the surface lot
 What's been torn down
 Can't be rebuilt
 What has been rebuilt
 Can't be destroyed
 Off the coast of Veracruz
 They threw them overboard
 Some made it to shore
 What a hardy mule
 To work without reward
 Carrying the load
 Till they drop amongst the stones
 They sleep beneath the waves
 Extraction of a life for debt
 Extraction of a life for debt
 Michigan hammers
 Michigan hammers
 Michigan hammers
 Michigan hammers
 Beating out a line
 Kicking in a hole
 In the side
 Brazen bull
 Calf of gold
 Dignity or toil