IN HONOR OF PACIFIC AVENUE AND ALL THE FOLKS WHO GIVE OUT THEIR HEARTS AND SOULS DOWN THERE - AND THANKS TO WOODY GUTHRIE, A HOBO, A TRAMP, A VAGRANT, A VAGABOND, OFTEN HOMELESS, THE "UNDESIRABLE TRANSIENT ELEMENT".....AND, A BUSKER!!
(to the tune of "this land is your land, this land is my land..")

this street is your street, this street is my street
from Mission and Water, to Laurel and Broadway
may it be lively, may it be col-or-ful,
this street was made for you and me!!

we've roamed and rambled, and we've followed our footsteps
to the golden gates of the city of San-ta Cruz,
we want to be free, we want to speak politically,
please don't trample our civil liber-ties!! (repeat chorus)

as we were walking that ribbon of sidewalk,
we saw before us, a busker playing,
and all around us, a voice was calling,
this street was made for you and me!! (repeat chorus)

we love the the music, we love the bubbles,
we love the jugglers, we love the ma-gic shows,
we love the ba-lloon clowns with the squea-ling kids;
please don't drive our performers to Berkeley!! (repeat chorus)

we want to table, we want to clipboard,
we want to rally, we want to march the streets,
we want to carry big signs and vigil ceaselessly,
please remember our rights of speech are free!!

this street is your street, this street is my street
from Mission and Water, to Laurel and Broadway,
may it be lively, may it be col-or-ful,
this street was made for you and me
please don't trample our civil liberties,
or drive our performers to Berkeley,
remember our rights of speech are free;
we want to be full of life right here in OUR CI-TY!!

Just a note: many musicians and other performers began their careers on the
streets - for instance, Tom Noddy and Bubble Magic, the Flying Karamazov
brothers, our own Mark Levy and also Tracy Chapman (good friends of mine remember hearing her play on the streets of Cambridge and buying her first CD out of her
guitar case there!), and Bonnie Raitt started out on the streets as well! -

musicians on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz get tickets for selling their own CD's - as Judy Small, a wonderful songwriter from Australia, would say, "go figur'!"

power to the people!!
sherry conable, People for a Free and Equal Downtown (PFED),Santa Cruz, CA
adapted during the struggle over the Downtown Ordinances in the summer/fall of 2002