Sympathy for the American

[JackRiddler]

Back to Jack’s draft.

You’ve got rhymes! You’ve got rhythms!
A good one!

Thanks! You're right to say draft, I now see. Did it off the top of my head without listening to the song, so I missed the opportunity afforded by what I now see are two additional choruses. I want to do this at a live-band rock-and-roll karaoke tonight. (Probably not yet.)

[DrEvil]

Joao, thanks! And that line is a direct reference to this:

STUDY: Kardashians Get 40 Times More News Coverage Than Ocean Acidification
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/06/27 ... era/186703

Ocean acidification clearly needs more boobs, or someone should pay the Kardashians to talk about acidification (After carefully explaining to them that it has nothing to do with whale sperm).

Oh, and great lyrics!

[JackRiddler]

Okay!!! Thank you!

A video is now in the works! I'm excited! Gonna get 4000 hits on Youtube, with a monetization value of minus four dollars!!!

After reviewing the original, saw I missed some choruses, so here's the current version...

SYMPATHY FOR THE AMERICAN

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of Wealth and taste
Robber baron of Yesteryear
Turned Philanthropist for today
And I was round when MLK
Had his moment of Doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Hoover
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to MEET you
Of course you know my Brand
'S on ev'ry Billboard and little screen
Across the Land

I built Manhattan in New Mexico
When I saw Em Cee squared equals E
Dropped two bombs on the Japanese
And the Cold War came to me
I flew two planes into New York's towers
Cos I needed a War in the next two hours!

Pleased to GREET you
Everyone knows my Name (it’s on the tag)
Since you were young I've Taught you
Being Fake is the Game (oh yeah)

Let's watch TV with Kardashians
While the Poison kills all the oceans
'M still telling you Oswald killed Kenne-day
When you all know - It was the C - I - A
Let me please Reproduce myself
I'm the maker of Wealth and taste
And I lay claim to own the Seeds
Of the starving people in Bombay




Pleased to EAT you
4000 calories a day
Pills and Jesus
Take your Twelve Steps and pray

(A-get down baby)

INSTRUMENTAL

Pleased to INDEBT you
Haven’t you guessed my Game?
Keep the Dollars flowing
Cos you know you gotta – Pay to Play
(oh yeah)

Just as ev'ry cop is a Zimmerman
And the Trayvons are fair game
As Markets crash
Just call me AMERICAN
I know Nothing of restraint
So if you meet me in your Country
I'm sure a good Deal can be made
Use all your well-learned Politic
Or I'll lay your Land to waste!

Pleased to BLEED you
My Flag will always wave
Hell and Heaven
Both foreclosed by the Brave

(mmm mean it get down
woo hoo oh yeah get on down oh yeah)

Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-baboomboom,
Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-baboomboom,

Tell me baby - What’s my name?
Tell me honey - Can you guess my name?
Tell me baby - What’s my name?
I tell you one time – You’re to blame

woo hoo etc.

[MacCruiskeen]

Why d'you have to be so negative, Jack? I can only conclude that you hate yourself for your freedoms.

[JackRiddler]

Yes! Proof that it happened!



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

[JackRiddler]

Thanks, three damn years later and I still haven't done the video. Which Drew even offered. Fuck.

[Sounder]

Thanks for bumping that Jack. You really need to find some collaborators and make a track. Great stuff.

[NeonLX]

Great stuff that I happened to miss the first time around. The Ballad of Tim Russert's Underworld Adventure makes me feel positively giddy.,