Let The Sunshine

(album: Up & Up - 1979)

All of the fat cats, fur coats, brass hats
Got a big investment in the energy scam
Tell it to the banker, buy a super tanker
Where you get the money well you get it off of Sam
Let Uncle sign a note, fill up your big boat
You bring it to the harbour then you let it sit a while
You won't have too long to wait, until the prices escalate
And then you sell your oil and you make yourself a pile
Then you can allow yourself to smile

Let the sun shine, heat up the water
Let all the water, a-turn into steam
Let the steam drive, all the generators
Keeping all the engines, humming like a dream

What the boys don't want, can't have, won't want
Don't want anybody getting power from the sun
No way to squeeze tight, corner all the sunlight
Wrap it up and sell it yes and charge everyone
Every day it rises in the skies you can bet on it
You can set your watch by it; happens every time
Shines on the poor folks, my folks, your folks
Happens every morning and it doesn't cost a dime
And that to the hustlers is a crime

Let the sun shine, heat up the water
Let all the water, a-turn into steam
Let the steam drive, all the generators
Keeping all the engines, humming like a dream

We go to the Arab, running up a big tab
Paying through the nose till the hose runs dry
Arab rears back; buys another Cadillac
Shading his eyes from the sun in the sky
Hook up the sunlight tell the Arab nighty-night
We don't need a hose and we don't need his spout
No need to lose it, once you learn to use it
You've got yourself a power that'll never run out
Now you can allow yourself to shout

Let the sun shine, heat up the water
Let all the water, a-turn into steam
Let the steam drive, all the generators
Keeping all the engines, humming like a dream
Once more now
Let the sun shine, heat up the water
Let all the water, a-turn into steam
Let the steam drive, all the generators
Keeping all the engines, humming like a dream