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Dear_Prudence

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Fri Mar 8, 2024, 02:11 PM Mar 8

My Lyrics to Stop the Tired Trailer Trope

First time published here at DU! These are lyrics I wrote some 40 years ago as an ode to our trailer park living. We were working our way up to a professional life after years of grad school, so we were still broke. We had decent, hardworking neighbors. The trope of "trailer trash" is tired, classist, and ignorant. Stop it.

ODE TO TRAILERS

They used to call them trailers.
Now they're called mobile homes.
We rent ours from a republican,
But we still call it home.

Chorus:
Some like to fix up a farm house.
Some want to build their own home.
But we're saving up for a double-wide
Deluxe mobile home of our own.

We've got wheels in case we travel.
There's a steering wheel over the sink.
We'll never be featured in Homes and Gardens,
But we don't care what they think.

You can hear the wind on the tin roof
Feel the wind as the trailer sways.
Your house may be built on a firm foundation,
But our house can roll away.

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