Posted on 08/06/2009 4:12:50 PM PDT by xcamel
Ok..time for some fun with "Government Healthcare" as seen through the lyrics of Alice's Restaurant Massacree, by Arlo Guthrie.
The link is above, pick a section, and rework the words.
Starting:
This song is called Government Healtcare Plan,
and it's about Government,
and the healthcare plan thing,
but Government Healtcare is not the name of the plan,
that's just the name of the song,
and that's why I called the song Government Healtcare Plan.
You can't get anything you want from a Government Healthcare plan.
You can't get anything you want from a Government Healthcare plan.
The whole damn train is going off the track,
You better just pray you don't break yer back.
You can't get anything you want from a Government Healthcare plan.
Now it all started two hundred days ago, was on - two hundred days ago on a thursday,
when my friend and I came face to face with the Government Healthcare Plan,
but Government Healthcare doesn't really have a face,
it lives in the minds of some smarmy government types,
and in the bellfry of some moonbatbat named Obama,
with a couple other bats named Pelosi and Reid.
And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of strange socialist ideas where the brains used to be.
Now havin' all that room seein' as how they took out all the brains,
they decided that they didn't have to listen to the people thinking that they might be doing the wrong thing.
http://www.arlo.net/massacree/Set2.mp3
in case you need a reminder about how it all sounded.
I haven’t had this much fun since B.J. ‘Toon was prez and the 2000 election. I think that I may have to get a new Republican Thug tee shirt.
“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” (commonly referred to simply as “Alice’s Restaurant”) is one of singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie’s most prominent works, a musical monologue based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name.
The song lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds, occupying the entire A-side of Guthrie’s 1967 debut record album, also titled Alice’s Restaurant (Warner Reprise Records). It is notable as a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, in addition to being a hit song in its own right. The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant
Arlo Guthrie/Alice’s Restaurant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo
Hey..this is right up your alley...
I know. I was just providing some background on the original song.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid are definitely suitable for Group W.
ping
You really can’t go to a town hall meating dressed like Hitler, and spouting obsenities in german. It’s just not ‘prudent’..
;-)
You sir, are a genius.
Let me know how your IRS audit next year turns out.
BTTT
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