Monday, December 12, 2011

Channeling The Spirit Of Woody Guthrie For The "Occupy Wall Street Folk"



Man cannot serve two masters: God and Mammon." - anon, long before Judaism

"They got the guns, but we got the numbers." - Jim Morrison



This is for the "Occupy Wall Street" folk.
... No Koch brothers around to rent them all buses
and make them a movement. But they know, they know well that
"Class Warfare" only ever killed the poor.

And for all the bloodied and longsuffering Anarcho-Syndicalists,
remembering the ancient 'Wobblies', who died slowly, just trying to breathe
after the Asbestos Industry "1%" declared themselves,
and their "freemarket", morally bankrupt.

For the hundreds of Union coal miners hacking up black bits of lung
as they died buried alive turning a profit for the same "1%".

For Woody Guthrie, whose guitar'machine'"killed Fascists",
and for Pete Seeger, and Joe Hill, and all the women & children massacred
at Ludlow, Colorado, with NONE of their slayers ever charged with a crime -
because the murdering thugs were defending the profits of the ""1".

And for those who fight today in the streets
of "Babylon, USA" interposing their bodies upon the gears,
and insinuating themselves into the mechanisms of the GROSS "National Product".

But most of all, this is for all the "Hip" who,
like Phil Ochs, & Hamilton Camp, & Joan Baez, & Ani DiFranco,
never stopped believing, nor let us forget:

Democracy is something Sacred, and Capitalism profoundly profane!      -  Jondalf John Thrasher




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Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Sacred And the Profane


"Man cannot serve two masters: God and Mammon." - anon (long before Judaism)

"They got the guns, but we got the numbers." - Jim Morrison


The best acoustic rendition link extant, wish Hamilton had a 50 year old demo to share


Quicksilver Messenger Service's original studio release



'Pride Of Man"

(by Hamilton Camp - all apologies for the textual modifications by me,
but that's the way I heard it back then - J)

Turn around, go back down,
back the way you came.
Can't you see that flash of fire
Ten times brighter than the day?
And behold a mighty city
Broken in the dust again.
Oh God, Pride Of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around, go back down,
Back the way you came.
Babylon is laid to waste,
Egypt buried in her shame.
Their mighty men are beaten down
Their kings are fallen in the ways.
Oh God, Pride Of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around, go back down,
Back the way you came.
Terror is on every side,
Though our leaders are dismayed.
For those who put their faith in fire
In fire their faith shall be repaid!
Oh God, Pride Of Man, broken in the dust again.

Turn around, go back down
Back the way you came,
And shout a warning to the nations:
That the Sword of God is raised
'Gainst Babylon, that might city
Rich her treasure, wide her fame.
Oh God, Pride Of Man, broken in the dust again.

And Greed shall cause your Towers to fall
And make of them a pyre of flame.
Oh you who dwell on many waters,
Rich in treasure, wide your fame.
You BOW unto your GOD OF GOLD,
Thy pride of might shall be thy shame.
For only a God can lead all people
Back unto the Earth again.
Oh God, Pride Of Man, broken in the dust again

The holy mountain can be restored.
Have mercy on thy peoples:

ALL people,  Lord.


(any proprietary royalties for printing this here, I will gladly pay
if I ever get another Unemployment Check, or from the savings
I'm hoarding to buy new 6 tires, and a new roof for my 1985
Toyota "'Dalph'in" 21ft Motorhome - the only pension 40 years
as a Master Machinist and proud American 'Craftsman'
in a Manufacturing Industry the "1%" sent 'oversiezed' when
they convinced the Political "Intelligentsia", of BOTH parties
that we should all work at Wal-Mart, or McDonald's, instead,
and be damn thankful if we didn't end up like modern day Charlie Chaplin
tramps 20 years hence, muttering: "  .  .  .  nien  .  .  .  nien  .  .  .  nien  .  .  .  "
whilst panhandling spare change from Mitt, and Newt, and Michelle,
and the Donald, and Rush, and Bills (Clinton AND O'Reilly) and Barack
and even Bernie Madoff, as they exit their 'electraglide' limos
on 2030's Wall Street,   - J)

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