Musical Sunday

Break's over, back on your heads, as the old joke goes. The last few Musical Sundays have been dedicated to the sort of beautiful songs that make me feel good, but as January 20th approaches and we see more and more of the coming buffoonery, it's time to start working some more ... timely ... songs into the mix. I think this one does a good job of exposing the duplicity at the core of the MAGA hierarchy ...

Sorry about the injury done to Tennessee Ernie Ford's classic protest tune, "Sixteen Tons." Here are the lyrics:

Some people say they can’t find engineers

For workin’ this country and buildin’ careers

It’s not so much that there is a dearth

They just don’t want to pay what they’re worth

[chorus]

You hire H1-B, what do you get?

An immigrant willing to slave and sweat

Don’t have to pay much ‘cause if you let ‘em go

They can’t stay ‘round this country no mo’

When running for office just to rile up his base

Donald said immigrants would leave this place

Vivek and Elon said “do what you’re told”

“Now we’re in charge, time to pay what we’re owed”

[chorus]

Vivek wants to guarantee our livelihood

Says American culture just ain’t no good

“Stop venerating jocks,” I heard him preach

“We need to worship Urkel and Screech”

[chorus]

Elon is stuck with his Twitter site

Where Nazi’s and MAGA continue to fight

He can’t help yelling to the MAGA base:

“Take a big step back, fuck yourself in the face”

[chorus]

Have a good day and enjoy the rest of your weekend. More thoughts coming.

Bilbo