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Occupation Is On
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Hezekiah Jenkins wrote "The Panic Is On" in 1930; I wrote this lately, and Peggy Seeger does a Britished-up version on her recent album.
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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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
#806 in subgenre Peak #41
Charts
Peak #440
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October 26, 2012
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MP3 3.4 MB • 160 kbps • 2:56
Story behind the song
This goes way back to the early part of the present economic crisis, 'round about 1929.
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What this country is comin’ to, I sure would like to know If they don’t do something by and by The rich will live and the poor will die Doggone, I mean the panic is on Can’t get no work, can’t get no pay Unemployment getting’ worser every day Nothing to eat, no place to sleep All night long folks walkin in the street Doggone, I mean the panic is on All the landlords done raised the rent Folks that ain’t broke is badly bent Where they get dough from goodness knows But if they don’t produce it, in the street they goes Doggone, I mean the panic is on I lost my house and my SUV Even lost my mp3 Now I got to pay those who made me this way So they can live to screw us all another day Doggone, I mean the panic is on I reckon those bankers shoulda never been bailed They should be sittin’ in the county jail If we do do somethin’ by and by We could walk down to Wall Street and occupy Doggone, occupation is on 400 people got too much stuff For 150 million, life is tough The top 1 percent are feelin’ fine We’re here to represent the other 99 Doggone, occupation is on I went down to Wall Street said what’s all this fuss Well, we occupy Wall Street cause it occupies us Corporations on top, that’s how the world is run I’ll believe they’re people when Texas executes one Doggone, occupation is on I need a job to pay my debts Money talks too much, shuts up all the rest Downsized and merged across the nation Lost my job, found an occupation Doggone, occupation is on Come all you workers and students, here’s a kind of a quirk You can tell we’re all workers cause we’re out of work We must do something, and do it now We could occupy together, overthrow the Dow Doggone, the people’s movement is on We communed in Paris in ‘68 Teamsters and turtles had a fine blind date Now the bankers are trying to grab it all After the Arab Spring comes the American fall Doggone, autumn is on All over the world you can hear the call Housing, jobs and justice, human rights for all The banksters wish uprising would cease But we’re learnin from Cairo, London, Spain & Greece Doggone, occupation is on
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