The band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks composed of singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Strayer, have dropped the term “Dixie” from their name and are using their fame and platform to spread anti-racist messages with the release of March March from their upcoming Gaslighting album.
The Chicks March March
The new song is a tribute to protests for equality and social issues over the past decades.
The video on YouTube is accompanied by the following:
“If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.” – unknown
Use your VOICE. Use your VOTE.
Headcount / www.headcount.org
Black Lives Matter / www.blacklivesmatter.com
Human Rights Campaign / www.hrc.org
American Civil Liberties Union / www.aclu.org
Supermajority Education Fund / www.supermajority.com
March For Our Lives / www.marchforourlives.com
Mi Familia Vota / www.mifamiliavota.org
Native American Rights Fund / www.narf.org
Planned Parenthood / www.plannedparenthood.org
White People For Black Lives / www.awarela.org
Innocence Project / www.innocenceproject.org
Proclaim Justice / www.proclaimjustice.org
Director / Editor – Seanne Farmer
Lyrics:
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one
Brenda’s packin’ heat cuz she don’t like Mondays
Underpaid teacher policing the hallways
Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range
Ah cut the shit
You ain’t goin’ to the gun range
Standing with Emma and our sons and daughters
Watchin’ our youth have to solve our problems
I’ll follow them so who’s comin’ with me
Half of you love me
Half already hate me
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one
Tell the ol’ boys in the white bread lobby
What they can and can’t do with their bodies
Temperatures risin’ cities are sinkin’
Ah cut the shit
You know your city is sinkin’
Lies are truth and truth is fiction
Everybody’s talkin’
Who’s gonna listen
What the hell happened in Helsinki
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one
March March to my own drum
March March to my own drum
Hey hey I’m an army of one
Oh I’m an army of one