Well once upon a time, in 1776,
Thomas Jefferson signed his name on a peice of marijuana
and this document was a symbol of freedom and of liberty
at least for the rich white gentry

and time marched along
this plant that I refer to has been used for everything
from medicine to the american flag
now it seems to me somewhere along the way of how things got messed up
yeah, messed up

oh marijuana
gift of god to my brothers and me
oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee

well some say a conspiracy
The petrol, chemical and pulp paper industrys combined
to kill the competition
government hysteria, monopoly, and conflicts of interest with total impunity
yeah so if you don't buy the conspiracy, just look at the reality that your tax dollars go
sprayed poison on the fields of a farmer in south america
and as an added bonus, your neighbor might be proud recipients of that poison weed

oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee
oh marijuana
gift of god to my brothers and me
oh marijuana
you can't legislate your own morality
oh marijuana
government comes to test me when i pee

reefer madness
chronic sadness
what is the half life of bad propaganda
policies fail
denied bail
you made him a demon
now pay for his trip to prison
hard to promote the status quo
but what is the shelf life
of bad legislation?
the hypocrit smirks at some moral disgrace
as he reads from the law that was written
about the same time
that he had
his last original thought

Though the man said he was dying
the nausea and the pain left him wasting away
and unable to keep a meal down
so he tried everything
prescription could obtain but to no avail
the side effects were worse then the pain
so now he breaks law
to use the one thing that seems to help him out
and the people say, oh he's just gettin' high
but not to change the subject, but didn't you ever wonder why gettin' high's a crime?
yeah a crime

oh marijuana
gift of god to my brothers and me
oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee
oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee
oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee
oh marijuana
government wants to test me when i pee
oh marijuana
this is the part where everybody would sing a long
when i pee