No more store-bought teeth

[struggle4progress]

... grandma she was deaf
we had to shout and cuss
but since she got her hearing aid
she cusses back at us ...

oh the union put us wise
the union put us wise
we got ourselves a doctor
since the union put us wise

Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and husband Gordon Friesen were the founders of Broadside, the influential music journal that first published many of the most popular and enduring songs of the folk revival era, including seminal contributions from then-fledgling artists Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. Cunningham was born in Watonga, OK, in 1909, the product of a poor farming family homesteading on the former Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Reservation. Her father -- an avowed socialist and follower of Socialist Party of America founder Eugene Debs -- kept the family afloat through a series of natural disasters like crop failures and livestock loss, but eventually the bank foreclosed on their mortgage, forcing the Cunninghams from their home. Agnes eventually graduated from Southwestern State College in nearby Weatherford, but after four years on the job she enrolled in Commonwealth College to study radical politics; there she also began writing songs ...
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/agnes-sis-cunningham-mn0001400761/biography