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In The Hummertime
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Code Pink buried a pink Hummer in Heidelberg Yard, the art neighborhood in Detroit, to symbolize the end of the era of greed and excess and environmental and social destruction.
folk political satire
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Songs to afflict those who make everyone else uncomfortable.
Dave Lippman travels the world taking the air out of the windbags of the week, de-distorting history, and rewriting the classics with parody and thrust. He also presents the world's only known singing CEO, the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, who employs anti-folk songs and interventionary anthems to explain (and enforce) that the business of America is none of your business, that those too big to fail are also too big for jail, and that the jobless and foreclosed must bail out their own boats.
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Podcasts Parody
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October 29, 2012
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MP3 2.6 MB 160 kbps 2:18
Story behind the song
The funeral anti-dirge for the Hummer.
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In the summertime when pollution is high You can drive a hummer and darken the sky When the weather’s hot We got oil wars and pollution on our mind Have a drink, have a drive Go see whose pocket’s getting lined If your daddy’s rich he can make oil plumes If your daddy’s poor you can suck on the fumes Speed along the lane, Weighs 3 tons, or 3 tons and twenty-five When the sun goes down, no one’s lookin So you’re better on a bike They’re a threat, people, they’re dirty and mean They’re civilian tanks for civilian marines They need so much oil They destroy most of the Caribbean sea Don’t make us happy, life’s for destroying yeah that’s their philosophy Sing along with us, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee Da da da a da, hum vee vee vee We will bury you Never again to see your chassis on TV Now we’re happy Life’s for living yeah that’s our philosophy When the wind is here, then it’s party time Bring the solar power, we’ll be doin’ fine We’ll build buses and trains That run on seaweed, seltzer and two buck chuck wine No more guzzling gas No more war for oil in our lifetime If your daddy’s rich which he really must be Takes a sh** load o dough to drive a hum-f*** in-vee Either that or you’re maxin, maxin out your visa credit card We’ll be better off Now we’ve buried it in Heidelberg Yard Sing along with us, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee Da da da a da, hum vee vee vee We will bury you Never again to see your chassis on TV Now we’re happy Life’s for living yeah that’s our philosophy
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