Politics & Government
`Another Boston Refugee' Folk Song Lyrics
2022 folk song lyrics about displacement of tenants shows why rally for rent control, on Sat., Jan. 28, 2023, at MA State House is needed.
A folk song, that protests against gentrification of Boston by real estate developers and landlords, about a Boston tenant who was forced out of Boston and became, like many other former Boston residents, "another Boston refugee."
She was born in Boston
And grew up in JP
But then she became
Another Boston refugee.
The millionaires came
From all over the globe
And bought up the South End
And drove her from her home.
She was born in Boston
And grew up in JP
And from Roxbury forced
Became another Boston refugee.
They gentrified JP
And Mission Hill blocks
In the South End they just built
High-rent apartments.
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She was born in Boston
And grew up in JP
In Mattapan she lived
But now she's another Boston refugee
Landlords and their lawyers
De-controlled rents
And with Downtown developers
Ripped-off their tenants.
She was born in Boston
And grew up in JP
Many tenants from Boston
Are now Boston refugees.
But on Jamaica Plain streets
These words are now heard:
"Boston refugees
Have the right to return!"
