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About the Song
This song appears on Schmidt's & Sally Rogers' album "We Are Welcomed" 2016 album.
Ooh, willful ignorance
Is a mighty entitled dangerous dance
Its magic spins you round & round
Before you know it, your guard is down
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Boy, you never saw it coming
Though it was always close at hand
Eyes shut tight to the death of rights
And now you just can’t understand
Every snowflake in the avalanche
Cries innocence
In the end, it’s all just
Willful ignorance
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Ooh, willful ignorance
Eases you right into a trance
It works so that you’ll never see
Your freedom was lost so easily (chorus)
Ooh, willful ignorance
Is a very cushy circumstance
But the consequences are coming due
And it’s bound to be a shock to you (chorus)
- lyrics & music by Claudia Schmidt. (c) Pragmavision (BMI). All rights reserved.
Mike Regenstreif called this a "powerful topical song carrying wise advice to those who might be seduced by Trumpian demagoguery" (in his Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog). The song turned out sadly to be prophetic of where are country has gone since 2016.