Not even Bernie Sanders goes so far as to call for redistribution of land — it took a bunch of Canadian hayseeds from the plains of Manitoba to do that. Burton Cummings, grossly underappreciated as both a singer and a songwriter, wrote this around the time Randy Bachman left the band in 1970. Its communal, back-to-nature message was anachronistic by then, but the tune’s gospel-inspired harmonies and Cummings’ impassioned vamping on the outro made it memorable. It reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, and I understand it’s still popular with the kidz.
Here’s a version with better audio.
