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Megs and All
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Based on the old tune "Peg and Awl," this song tells the story of my lifetime, its changes in technology, civil rights, war - everything you need to know.
folk political satire
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Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
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Peak #659
Peak in subgenre #133
Author
Dave Lippman
Rights
2003
Uploaded
August 02, 2010
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MP3 3.0 MB 128 kbps 3:17
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In 1951 I’d just begun In 1951 I’d just begun Korean War was underway We had a brand new Chevrolet We were livin’ the American Way in 51 In 1955 came civil rights In 1955, civil rights There was much to overcome Ku Klux terror and the slum Who knew what was to come in 55 In 1963 in Washington We marched to show that freedom could be won There were freedom songs to sing And there was Martin Luther King In 1963 in Washington In 1968 we came undone Revolutions were put down with club and gun There was blood and there was bombs Not a nation could be calmed In 1968 we came undone In 1969 we walked the moon On earth a man still called his neighbor coon Some were happy, some did say It was mankind’s greatest day In 1969 we walked the moon And then the freedom leaders all were gone Government officials said be calm With the killers still at large And Nixon still in charge So many freedom leaders…gone The eighties were the fifties upside down Plutocrats and colonels gaining ground When we hit 1984 It was like the book, maybe more Yes, the eighties were dark days all around Then they invented a new machine, mouse and all They invented a new machine, megs and all It’s a global clarion call Gathers data on us all It’s a high tech shopping mall, mouse and all One superpower now bestrides the world Banners of resistance are unfurled For these people and this earth A new millenium’s in birth And we will not live in a world of greed, We will not stoop except to plant another seed
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