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If Corporations are People My Friend
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A song about greed, abuse, hubris and exploitation of the 99% of us who work for a living, pay taxes and do not have off shore bank accounts.
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The Stray Dawgs are from Plantation, Florida. Lew Dawg Cloninger is the founding member and plays guitars and sings (many people refer to it as hollering). Founding member Steve Sallaz plays bass, sings and also does most of the mixing and mastering of our recordings. He also plays a variety of percussion instruments. We have many other musician friends that help us out at live shows as well as recording. Huge thanks go out to Susan Ivory Blue who has played piano and organ on many of our recordings and gigs. Also special thanks to Lew Knapper for his help with Texas blues harp on many of our songs.
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Genre
Country • Americana
Charts
Peak #100
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Lew Cloninger
Rights
2014
Uploaded
December 08, 2015
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 4:14
Story behind the song
In 2012 a candidate for president famously said "Corporations are People". Considering the events of 2008, I felt like if Corporations are People, then they are NOT very nice people and they do NOT look out for the interest of average people. CEO's today make about 200 times what the average worker in their respective companies make. Are we better off for this? HELL NO!!!
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V1 On Friday night you Cash your Paycheck Johnny and sing about the workin man. The suits on Wall Street had a train wreck. It was their shit that hit the fan. The banks are makin record profits, but they don't want to make your loan. The CEO's they suck the gravy, while all the workers get the bone. Chorus: If corporations are people my friend, why do they act like such assholes? The CEO is dreaming all night long of how he's gonna cut your payroll. You know they shipped the jobs all overseas. We're gonna have to learn to speak Chinese. You congressman just says thank you and please, cause he's so easy to grease. V2 We paid our CEO ten million: his predecessors even more. How bout the last one when they fired him (Bob Nardelli); got twenty mil to hit the door. With all their planes and yachts and mansions, they always conjure and connive to keep the worker down on Main Street, who works three jobs to survive. Chorus: Bridge: Well, it's Mittens, J.P. Morgan and Wall Mart too. And if you get in their way, you're headed for a great big screw and not a big kiss. I said Mittens, J.P. Morgan and Wall Mart too. And if you get in their way, you're headed for a great big screw and not a big kiss. V3 The banks and AIG went crying. They wanted help and got it fast. Uncle Sam was there by morning and bailed em out, no questions asked. The crooks on Wall Street robbed our country with dirty deeds beyond the pale. Of all the crimes that they committed; only Bernie (Madoff) went to jail. Chorus: ends with "cause corporations bring the grease".
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