Eric Idle sings
Hey Folks,
This has been around a while, but it still applies, and you may have missed it!
(just today the Dispatch has a story on profanity and the "F-word," and a day or two ago Fudge Judge Scalia gave a photographer the finger - and there's always Darth "Go fuck yourself" Cheney who shot ducks with Scalia before he switched to shooting people)
- Uke Man
Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song. "Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… It’s a new song, it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars."
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3
This has been around a while, but it still applies, and you may have missed it!
(just today the Dispatch has a story on profanity and the "F-word," and a day or two ago Fudge Judge Scalia gave a photographer the finger - and there's always Darth "Go fuck yourself" Cheney who shot ducks with Scalia before he switched to shooting people)
- Uke Man
Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song. "Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… It’s a new song, it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars."
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3
2 Comments:
Steve Earle beat him to the punch - on "the revolution starts" album he's got a great song (actually on that album there are many great songs - like most Steve Earle (or other singer/songwriters named steve) albums - anyhow - I digress - the song is called
"fuck the FCC"
and the lyrics follow: (reproduced without permission - or even asking for that matter - but hey if it takes getting busted to meet Steve Earle - I'm down wit dat!)
I used to listen to the radio
And I don’t guess they’re listenin’ to me no more
They talk too much but that’s okay
I don’t understand a single word they say
Piss and moan about the immigrants
But don’t say nothin’ about the president
A democracy don’t work that way
I can say anything I wanna say
So fuck the FCC
Fuck the FBI
Fuck the CIA
Livin’ in the motherfuckin’ USA
People tell me that I’m paranoid
And I admit I’m gettin’ pretty nervous, boy
It just gets tougher everyday
To sit around and watch it while it slips away
Been called a traitor and a patriot
Call me anything you want to but
Just don’t forget your history
Dirty Lenny died so we could all be free
Hey All -
That Steve Earle release should be required listening for all the world! - Maybe we can get it broadcast over the airwaves on the election days that will soon be happening -
It is also the CD that features
Rich Man's War:
Jimmy joined the army ‘cause he had no place to go
There ain’t nobody hirin’
‘round here since all the jobs went
down to Mexico
Reckoned that he’d learn himself a trade maybe see the world
Move to the city someday and marry a black haired girl
Somebody somewhere had another plan
Now he’s got a rifle in his hand
Rollin’ into Baghdad wonderin’ how he got this far
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
When will we ever learn
When will we ever see
We stand up and take our turn
And keep tellin’ ourselves we’re free
Ali was the second son of a second son
Grew up in Gaza throwing bottles and rocks when the tanks would come
Ain’t nothin’ else to do around here just a game children play
Somethin’ ‘bout livin’ in fear all your life makes you hard that way
He answered when he got the call
Wrapped himself in death and praised Allah
A fat man in a new Mercedes drove him to the door
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
Sarangel Music (ASCAP)
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