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Jena
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People must know their place, even in the 21st Century. Or has that not yet arrived in Louisiana?
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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Peak #142
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Dave Lippman
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November 12, 2010
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MP3 2.0 MB 128 kbps 2:10
Story behind the song
High school kids, African American as it happens were charged with being out of line, if not terrorists, for sitting down under a tree reserved, by custom, for the whiter shade of students. Must not defy custom now, chillen. Chill.
Lyrics
Everything was fine in Jena Before they came around From Michigan and Harlem and all them brown towns A rising tide lifts all boats David Duke got all our votes Everything is fine in Jena There ain’t a single thing a white can do That a black can’t do in Jena too. Except live in a nice house on a nice street Accumulated wealth over generations You can’t call that a racist nation Everything is fine in Jena. We don’t have a race problem here. It’s not about color, it’s about crime and fear Black kids wanta sit by a white tree Sounds to me like a crime spree I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again I can end your life with the stroke of a pen. Everything is fine in Jena Don’t tell me you don’t do the same Cause your New York Bell had a different name Mychal’s in jail, Sean’s six feet under So it goes, that’s the situation, you can’t call that a racist nation Everything is fine in America Used to have an underground railroad, Now they’re railroaded here at home Just because it’s a prettified plantation You can’t call that a racist nation Everything is fine You can’t call that a racist nation Everything is fine in Jena
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