Ok, I'll admit, I have been listening non-stop to the new Springsteen Seeger Sessions album all week, and this song reflects that influence. I keep hearing the music for "Old Dan Tucker" as I write this. Get the banjo ready David!
Wake Up Call
Chorus:
Wake up Georgie it's getting late
Judgment day for the head of State
Look over your shoulder, time's running down
Time for you and Dick to get out of town.
1.
Said that Sadaam had WMD's
Cross your heart, pretty please
Pretty soon we found out you were wrong
Now you're singing a different song
2.
Stood on a platform in 04
told us that the wolf was at the door
Said gay marriage would doom us all
Send us all to hell in a big fireball
3.
Cut all the funding for the Army Corps
So they couldn't work on the levee no more
When Hurricane Katrina broke the levee down
Georgie was nowhere to be found
4.
Refugees shuffled to the Astrodome
Sleepin on the floor so far from home
Georgie's mom Babs says please don't scoff
Most of you people are better off.
5.
Cindy Sheehan sits on your lawn
Wants you to tell her why her son is gone
You replied in a neat sound byte
Her dear boy died for the right
6.
The general's are callin for Rumsfeld's A*s*s
But George thinks Donnie's got a lot of class
"I'm the decider" do what I say
Everything always has to go my way.
7.
Wake up Georgie we had enough
Can't take any more of this stuff
The rich get richer and the poor make do
They know that they can't count on you.
I could probably come up with a few more verses as well~! I usually don't write a lot of politcal stuff, but Mr seeger's music inspired me.
Falling in love is like learning to play the guitar; first you learn to follow the rules, then you learn to play with your heart.
Well done. I'd love to hear it set to music and played 24/7 outside the White House and his ranch.
Good Job!
I honestly don't think Georgie will ever wake up. :roll:
We do need a really good protest song though and I really like what you wrote. :D
It feels like there are so many other things you could add to the song(illegal immigration, health care, budget, etc.), but it's good the way it is.
"If I had a time machine, I'd go back and tell me to practise that bloody guitar!" -Vic Lewis
Everything is 42..... again.
Hi katreich,
First off , just let me say that I like the message and lyrics, well written!
I do have a few minor thingies that I'd like to comment on though, and I'm not even sure about this.
Thingie 1: Uhm, I'm dumb, but I don't know who Richard is...
Thingie 2: Uhm, I'm dumb, but I don't know who Saddam is.. naah, just kidding... But what I was thinking is how I don't think the name Saddam fits in here (call me crazy if you like :)) A suggestion could be using Iraq instead, but then again, that would be generalization. And it also brings me to thingie 3
Thingie 3: Uhm, I'm dumb, but I don't know who Cindy Sheehan is either. But I feel the name is somewhat relevant to the message of the verse and if so, thingie 2 kinda goes down the drain.
I guess what I'm trying to say is... who is Richard and Cindy?
Any chance you'll record this? I've only heard a teaser of the new Springsteen album, but I liked it :) (he's coming to concert here sometime soon, buuuut I don't have a ticket :()
:)
-man
"I wish there was an over the counter test for my loneliness"
Hi Katreich,
I love the way this reads! Sounds great.
I'm with Manontheside too in that I'm not familiar with a number of the characters in the song but there's no doubt it being primarily for a US audience, so I can be forgiven for not knowing some of the issues. ;)
Having said that, I didn't find it detracted from the song at all. I quite enjoyed it nonetheless. And some great verses in there I really couldn't pick one out as a favourite. Maybe if anything:
Stood on a platform in 04
told us that the wolf was at the door
Said gay marriage would doom us all
Send us all to hell in a big fireball
This verse just read really well and had some great imagery/metaphors.
Well done. 8)
From little things big things grow - Paul Kelly
Thanks All! ghost, I have already come up with 2 more verses since posting. This seems like it could be one of those tunes where everyone makes up a verse as you go.Manontheside, Richard is D*ick Cheney, the VP. Our GN censor changed my post to Richard.
Cindy Sheehan is a woman who's son ws killed in Iraq. She has spent most of her time since then camped outside the president's ranch in Tx, waiting for him to come out and speak with her, so she could ask him why her son and so many others had to die. Mr Bush will not meet with her.
Falling in love is like learning to play the guitar; first you learn to follow the rules, then you learn to play with your heart.
I love the way you put such childlike phrases ("...cross my heart pretty please...") in the middle of all the adult and political imagery and it makes the lyric even stronger.
This is one of those songs that could, as pointed out, end up with two dozen verses. You'll have to think about recording a "live" version of it instead of a "home studio" one. Too many verses and the fun wears off, even in the best of songs.
Or record a lot of different versions... :wink:
Encore!
Peace
Richard is D*ick Cheney, the VP. Our GN censor changed my post to Richard.
That explains a whole lot, I know who he is... didn't think of the censorship and changing it to Richard completely threw me off track :) Thanks for clearing up about Cindy Sheehan, I wasn't aware of that.
Could you post the next verses as well? I'm greedy, always wanting more :)
:)
-man
"I wish there was an over the counter test for my loneliness"
I've edited and added the two additional verses I came up with. The possibilities are endless!!!(unfortunately).
Falling in love is like learning to play the guitar; first you learn to follow the rules, then you learn to play with your heart.
Hi
I love it ....Stick it to em girl :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
The chorus really sucked me in
terrific writting
well done
Hilch :?:
Here is to you as good as you are
And here is to me as bad as I am
As good as you are and as bad as I am
I'm as good as you are as bad as I am
Thanks All! ghost, I have already come up with 2 more verses since posting.
Yeah I read those. Still good work Katreich. :D
You wrote a song that you could just keep rolling with new verses.
"If I had a time machine, I'd go back and tell me to practise that bloody guitar!" -Vic Lewis
Everything is 42..... again.
You wrote a song that you could just keep rolling with new verses.
Don't be giving Bob any ideas about next week's assignment! :wink:
Peace
I like it. I agree with everyone else, the 2nd one stands out the most. I don't know why, it just sort of brings that particular scape goat effort into the ridiculously paranoid light it deserves to be under.
GOOD JOB!!!
"Like the coldest winter chill. Heaven beside you. Hell within." -Jerry Cantrell
Hello
Nothing better then a song that tells it the way it is ...
Keep Posting
L.K
Aghhhh
Not only am I a senior citizen
I'm now a bloody senior member
Are you people trying to tell me I'm old or what ?
over 700 posts ( I really do need to get out more )
Hi Kat
Funnily enough I was wanting to do a protest song last week but went for safer ground instead as I thought there would be a tendency to discuss any social, political, economic or environmental point of view rather than the song. Thanks to everyone who fed back here to show me we can handle these things maturely.
Good song but could have the tendency to be overlong so write as many verses as you can and pick three or four of the strongest. Certainly the Cindy Sheehan refernce is very powerful and is abetter verse to protest the Iraq conflict than WMDs.
Reminds me very much of Paula Cole's - My Hero Mr President - very similar sentiment.
Great stuff :wink:
Bob
You are what you eat, eat well
