Reform!

Reform!

Reform!

We yearn for REFORM!

Let us transform!

Help the country!

Tell us! Teach us! Feed our curiosity.

Philippines, pearl at the orient

Fertile, lush, rich and mighty

All of these may shimmer and prosper

But a drought,

a drought has come

that struck us down.

Farmers drop dead,

fields burns ahead

A whisper of help,

widows and children yelp

Farmlands, commercialized for dire desires

What desires? No more! No more!

OPRESSED NO MORE!

We must uproot the weeds

that harms us, strangles us and suffocates us

Rise my agrarians, raise your bolos

We will cut them down

tear them from root to stem

Reform!

Reform!

Reform!

"Friarocracy" sprung within the lands

People turned into slaves,

objects on a tight,

very tight grip by the Friars hand.

Absence of governance gave way

to abuse yet notorious injustices sprung

Farmers in pain, left nothing to say

Crops taken and left us with cow dung

During the American era, they made the tenancy act

That started the equal distribution of cost and products

A joint of pursuit of agricultural work

by which tenants must stand their word

And by that, people felt relieved and sighed.

Until one fateful day,

On 11th of January, it was a Sunday

They burnt the hated land records

and several houses to expressed their dismay

The Tayug uprising in Pangasinan

Where woman led the battle and planned

To fight with bolos and firearms in hand

Another uprising perpetrated by the Sakdalistas angered

Ties with the American’s severed

Later on, Japan crashed the party

Peasants and workers grew strength indeed

Japanese operated but some got infuriated

Took up arms and became warriors of mighty

To go against the Japanese group, they wanted to flee

HUKBALAHAP, headed by Luis Taruc

Became a resistance to the Japanese body rose

and gave them a grand HAVOC

Thus, divided the lands that tillers will bore

Manuel Roxas a time that was archaic

Farmers and land owners must help their own

Turn disaster into economic damages must be sown

Magsaysay's programs he maintained

Peace and prosperity we attained

Constant aid given to farmers

Equal distribution for land owners

Cory demanded for agricultural rectification,

comprising CARP and CARL and its relation

As reform is not only concerned with distribution

but also in respect to production

Ramos as president remarks

increased budget of CARP,

Garilao proposed convinces

And please the militants that are about to rally,

follow the will of the people and use it as strategy

And now Duterte calls an aggressive land reform,

Alleviating poverty alongside land distribution

To bring about equity and service provision,

better land formations is today's mission

Reform!

Reform!

Reform!

Now we are already familiar with agrarian reform

but it never fulfills its mission!

We have the resources yet never utilized

With all the mishaps, are agrarian fall

Until then, we reap what we sow