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Alberta Tarbillies
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They plan to blow up the rocks under us with high-powered toxic chemical water to get shale gas (methane) to raise the earth's temperature some more, instead of investing in clean renewable energy and conservation. No news here. But lots of outrage.
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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Peak #40
Peak in subgenre #8
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October 29, 2012
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MP3 2.5 MB 160 kbps 2:12
Story behind the song
Technology advances - ?! - to where it can excavate more destructively the destructive energy sources we need to complete our own destruction. Civil disobedience, anyone?
Lyrics
ALBERTA TARBILLIES (tune: Chestnuts Roasting…) Glaciers roasting ‘cause of climate liars Jack Frost lost his way God knows Yuletide carols sung while we perspire And folks dressed up like – well, too hot for clothes (tune: Beverly Hillbillies) Come listen to a story ‘bout Alberta Tar Sands In a western province of wheat-growin’ lands Tycoons found a complement for their blue blood Down in the ground was some tar sand crud Spoken: Oil, that is, dirty oil, Pollution tea, toxic sludge...water waste…tailing ponds…I never swim in ammonia….if it’s mixed with cyanide…. Well the first thing you know TransCanada was there Corporation said better move the tar but where? Turns out Texas is the place where they refine So they fueled up their tools and built a pipeline Spoken: Oil spillin’, river ruinin’, petroleum dependin’ Climate killin’…acidic….corrosive…volatile…unstable…like its builders….fossil fools. They say if you build it, it will spill You can tweak but it’ll leak and wildlife it’ll kill Diverted from an aquifer we can’t live without Yes we can fight oil industry clout Spoken: Let’s hear it for long-term strategies for energy sanity! Now let’s hear it for short-term profits! How a-bout that destruction of indigenous lands? Puttin’ that much sulfur and acid in a pipe – what they been smoking?! (Slower rhythm:) Is it time to say good-bye to atmosphere and earth? We would like to thank you folks fer shoutin’ what it’s worth You're all invited back again to this locality To share a heapin helpin of your solidarity Spoken: Earth-savin’, that is. Set a spell. Civil disobedience. Y’all save the planet, y’hear? (tune: Chestnuts Roasting…) And so I’m offering this warm refrain The mercury’s at ninety-two Foggy Scotland’s shores Are now hot as Bahrain Scary business melting me & you
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