It Takes a Village
to Shame the Shameless Hypocrite
When you need a lawyer
with no cash to render.
John Q. Public
Pays your public defender.
Retirement approaching,
you can’t wait to collect,
Your socialist
Social Security check.
No talkin’ ‘bout bootstraps
when you’re out and down
Nowhere to be found
come your turn to buy a round.
Oh, you call yourself a Texan,
Talking ‘bout secession.
PPP and EIP,
kept you solvent last recession.
A buck gets ten
Only then will you admit
Amen, ‘it takes a village,’
to save the village idiot.
Should a Galveston encore
Come crashing ashore
And your guns come up short
Against a Categ’ry 4
You’ll abandon your
“Let’s go Branden” sham;
Hat in hand, bend the knee
to Sleepy Joe and Uncle Sam.
A buck gets ten
Only then will you admit
Amen, ‘it takes a village,’
to shame the shameless hypocrite.
About the Creator
Chris Z
My opinion column garnered more reader responses than any other contributor in the paper's 40-year run. As a stand-up comic, I performed in 16 countries & 26 states. I've written 2 one-man shows, umpteen poems, songs, essays & chronologies.
'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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