“March March” is a punchy response to injustices and social issues in the US, and a promise to follow the activists leading the country toward positive change. Dissecting issues like school shootings, climate change, gun control, reproductive justice, and racial justice, and The Chicks promise to us...
[Chorus]
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
[Verse 1]
Brenda's packin' heat 'cause she don't like Mondays
Underpaid teacher policin' the hallways
Print yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range
(Ah, cut the shit, you ain't goin' to the gun range)
Standin' with Emma and our sons and daughters
Watchin' our youth have to solve our problems
I'll follow them, so who's comin' with me?
(Half of you love me, half already hate me)
[Chorus]
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
[Verse 2]
Tell the ol' boys in the white bread lobby
What they can and can't do with their bodies
Temperatures are risin', cities are sinkin'
(Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin')
Lies are truth and truth is fiction
Everybody's talkin', who's gonna listen?
What the hell happened in Helsinki?
[Chorus]
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
March, march to my own drum
March, march to my own drum
Hey, hey, I'm an army of one
Oh, I'm an army of one
[Instrumental Outro]
March March was written by Ross Golan & Natalie Maines & Martie Maguire & Jack Antonoff & Ian Kirkpatrick & Emily Strayer & Dan Wilson.
March March was produced by Jack Antonoff & The Chicks.
The Chicks released March March on Thu Jun 25 2020.
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on July 16, 2020, the band shared that the song was written “two couple years ago”.
Martie Maguire:
We’ve talked about “March March” being one
of the hardest ones to finish. It went through many different iterations and when you’re writing a song about something from like a perspective on the world, I think it’s even more critical that you get it right. It was a heavy subject and...
NM: “We went to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., with our kids. It was so impactful for me. That’s the first time I’ve ever been in a march that large. And we weren’t there as performers, we were just in the crowds, with my little girls on my shoulders. We took a lot from that, the energ...