Has anyone else detected a corelation between the sponsorship of big sporting events and the most undesirable aspects of multinational capitalism ... or are we just imagining it?

Reach Across The Ocean

by Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis

Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.
Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.

Every day this world grows smaller, or so it seems to me,
With hide aways and take aways and satellite TV.
No matter where you go now, seems everything's the same,
So don't offend our sponsors or
We won't have any Games.

Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.

Don't sing of factory workers in struggle overseas,
Don't tell of exploitation or of third world slavery.
Of eighty four cents pay an hour, pretend we never knew it,
In case our sponsors pull the plug -
And we wouldn't be able to "Do It!".

Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.

Don't sing of greed and plunder in far away Brazil,
The destruction of rain forests, the chain saw and the mill.
Of people driven from their land to make way for the cow,
Or you might offend our sponsors and
It won't be "Mac time now".

It's Mac time now...
It's Mac time now...

Let's celebrate together, in dance and sport and song,
It's televised across the world, so how could it be wrong?
With the BHP and Westpac, and with IBM we sing,
All of us together now,
"It's the real thing!"

It's the real thing ...
It's the real thing ...

Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.
Reach across the ocean, take your brother's hand,
With your sisters celebrate, in every distant land.

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