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Finnish Farmers - Laurie Anderson
During WWII the Russians were testing their parachutes
Sometimes they didn't open
At all and a lot of troops were lost this way
During the invasion of Finland hundreds of troops
Were dropped during the middle of winter
As usual some of the chutes didn't
Open and the troops fell straight down into
The deep snow drilling holes fifteen feet deep
The Finnish farmers would then get out their shotguns
Walk out into their fields find the holes and fire down them
During the 1979 drought in the Midwest
The American farmers began to rent their property
To the United States government as sites for missile silos
They were told:
Some of the silos contain Minutemen
And some do not
Some are designed to look like ordinary
Corn and grain silos
The military called these Decoy Silos
But the farmers called them the Scarecrows
The government also hinted that some of these silos
Might be connected by hundreds of miles of railroad in
An underground shuttle system
This is the breadbasket
These are the crops
The shot heard round the world
The farmers the Minutemen
The farmers the ones who were there
Breadbasket
Melting Pot
Meltdown
