[join us Fridays 5-6 pm at WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College and Saturday mornings from 8 to 10 am for our "Common Sense" breakfast club on-air pow-wows at WHVW 950 AM studios at 316 Main St. in Poughkeepsie-- you're invited to help us sing the chorus (and talk politics/issues)!...(and the verses if u want too)...go to the videos on my Facebook page to see me rappin' the three older songs below; this first one at the top is brand-spankin' new as of this a.m.!)...Joel]
[next step-- finding all the verses I wrote for "Zero Hero and the Clean Dozen"(!)]
MC Whitebread back in the game-- 'cause the truth can't be tamed...(lol):
darkness gathers across the land
media no help-- 'cause the truth been canned
tea party idiots-- justice banned
slippin' away thru the hourglass-- grains of sand
stop children-- what's that sound
they think they got us beaten down
but we back-- for another round
fascism growin'-- no time to clown
politicians-- papers-- so so sick
politicians-- papers-- so so slick
politicians-- papers-- so so trick
politicians-- papers-- so so quick
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
takin' from the needy-- givin' to the greedy
ain't nothin' new-- but it still seedy
skulkin' in the shadows-- they dirty deedy
rich gettin' richer-- while poor bleedy
they think they got some mandate
but they got nothin'-- just filled with hate
bullies-- ignorant-- that's their trait
empty with greed they cannot sate
they cut and they cut and they cut and they cut
ain't thinkin' with their head-- they usin' their butt
enough of this-- we know what's what
what comes up come down-- tut tut tut
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
we need jobs-- not a bigger jail
but they cut and cut-- without fail
wake up-- this is now-- no tall tale
and no you can't have that Marcellus Shale
closin' schools-- expandin' incarceration
here in Dutchess-- and 'cross the nation
a highly intolerable situation
wake up folks-- feel the vibration
well guess what-- we comin' together
birds of a feather-- in any weather
off the hook-- off the tether
we toughenin' up-- tougher than leather
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
wake up folks-- we deserve better
we don't need no mean go-getter
come on y'all-- time to rise up
everyone-- old hounds-- you baby pup
so we sing to get the message out
sing with us now-- scream and shout
if we stand together we got the clout
can't take no more of these fools-- no doubt
their only solution-- more pollution
talkin' justice-- not retribution
no more pervertin' our Constitution
like Tracy said-- talkin' revolution
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
get up everybody-- shine a light
come on come on-- get up and fight
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[wrote this one back in Jan.-- along with one just below it ("We Deserve")]
"Cut Cut Cut Cut Cut"
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Republicans say
Democrats say
Poughkeepsie Journal says
New York Times says
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Education
Healthcare
Environment
Help for poor
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Jobs
Wages
Pensions
Benefits
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
So get up off ya butts
To stop those cuts
Make the rich pay
Right here today
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Get the real deal
Don't bark like a seal
No happy meal
'Cos some cuts don't heal
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Remember FDR
Be a shining star
Don't need a fancy car
With the truth you go far
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
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[wrote this one after one of those Sat. vigils w/Pete Seeger]
"We Deserve"
We deserve-- good payin' green jobs
We deserve-- no more for rich greedy slobs
We deserve-- energy retrofits, solar
Yes yes y'all-- ain't goin' bipolar
We deserve-- a living wage
We deserve-- now in this day and age
We deserve-- quality education
Without goin' broke-- or starvation
We deserve-- our right to health care
We deserve-- speak up if you dare
Lost Bob already-- 20 years with IBM
Billions in profits ain't enough for them
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
We deserve-- a fair tax system
Make the rich pay so I don't fist 'em
We deserve-- no more budget cuts
Wealthy folks pay more-- get up off your butts
We deserve-- clean air clean water
Wake up people-- time that we oughta
We deserve-- affordable housing
Wakin' up from our slumber-- gettin' aroused an'
We deserve-- government by the people
Real reform-- wake up, sheeple
We deserve-- no more games on Wall Street
Destroying our economy-- make 'em feel some heat
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
We deserve-- our troops to come home
From Afghanistan, Iraq-- where they roam
We deserve-- to get down to 350
Cuttin' carbon now-- would be nifty
The way things are-- it's inhumane
Wake up now-- if you got half a brain
Dalai Lama's right-- happiness from compassion
Sad-- cause for them-- it's never in fashion
Time that we all pulled together
Realized we're all birds of a feather
Yeah you better bet-- there's a solution
Make a contribution-- no substitution
Pete's right-- let this song do the work
Let your light shine-- don't be a jerk
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
Wake up Dutchess wake up
Shake up Dutchess shake up
I've had just about enough
Of this lyin' corrupt stuff
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[I wrote this one back in late 90's]
"Been to the Mountaintop"
Been to the mountaintop-- seen the other side
Ain't no injustice there-- the others lied
Time for us to make a stand for what's right
No more suckin' up to bullies day and night
Fifty years ago-- Montgomery Alabama
Dr. King-- many others-- ain't 'fraid o' no slamma
Time to put our money where our mouth is y'all
Time to hit the streets big-- that'd be a ball
You say your life is borin'-- life has no purpose
Check the word of Jesus-- scratch the surface
Two thousand years ago the man made it clear
From the rich to the poor without fear
He turned the tables of the moneychangers over
Sick and the poor-- rollin' in clover
Crucified on a cross-- without reason
Don't forget Christmas-- reason for the season
And I been to the mountaintop (been to the mountaintop)
And I been to the mountaintop (been to the mountaintop)
Now one nation under God Pledge of Allegiance says
But our leaders treat God like a box of Pez
Disrespectin' the sick and the poor every way
Come on-- gotta turn that right around today
But it ain't just Jesus-- check any religion
All the world's profits ain't no stool pigeon
Each and every one care about the poor
Got to get together folks-- can't take it no more
So you sittin' over there on that wall
Thinkin' your life don't mean that much at all
Get up off ya butt and ready to go
For some civil disobedience a la Thoreau
They're raisin' our rent to kick us out of public housin'
Beatin' us in the jail-- but they got us aroused an'
And I been to the mountaintop (been to the mountaintop)
And I been to the mountaintop (been to the mountaintop)
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