Well I pulled up there at the gate   Had to come and keep a date   With ten thousand of my friends   Here to right some wrongs and make amends   Folks came in buses, bikes and cars   With voices, fiddles and guitars   All kinds of people, shapes and styles   Burned those frequent flyer miles      First thing I see's a singing nun   At the frisky age of ninety-one   She's here fresh out of jail   Told the judge "I ain't got no bail   I'm bearing witness right here and now   'Cause we've got to change the world somehow   So with you all right here I pray   We'll shut down the SOA"      There's this year's crop from Oberlin   And there's the folks from Warren-Wilson   But they're not all eighteen to twenty-two   They brought along their neighbors too   There's grandpa, baby, mom and dad   An ARA kid, fighting mad   What are we gonna do today?   We'll shut down the SOA      There's some in pink, some in black   There's one wrapped in a coffee sack   There's t-shirts, stickers, pins and more   Saying we don't want your oil war   There's a labor lawyer from Walla Walla   With some Mayan folks from Guatemala   See, north and south the people say   We'll shut down the SOA      Pouring blood, crossing lines   Holding crosses, making signs   There's priests and punks in groups and pairs   Along with a gang in wheelchairs   There's Josh and Abi, Bill and Sue   Charlie, Tao and you know who   Giant puppets, paper-mâché   Sayin' we'll shut down the SOA      Yes, we'll keep coming to this town   Til this torture school's shut down   Then we'll march as we intone   You do not walk alone   To the next symbol in our sights   In the global fight for human rights   But for now we're here in this Georgia clay   Sayin' we'll shut down the SOA