Waltz of the One Percent - Large.m4v

[ChicagoClout]

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[blackmesa176]

This is dope respect! Keep fighting!

[JennetPreston]

Thanks for your kind response! Comments are limited to 500 characters, so, until 378htvx8 sees & answers your question, fragments will have to do. I'll start with the chorus, just below, then follow with the verses, 2 per comment.

CHORUS:

Just ‘cause you’re legal don’t mean you ain’t pirates;

Don’t need skull and crossbones to take what ain’t yours.

Oh, give me a peg-leg with a trash-talking parrot,

Not a greed-addled banker with the law for a sword.

[JennetPreston]

@JennetPreston VERSES 1 & 2 When I was a child, how I loved to play pirates, Black flag on my bike & a sword by my side. With a loud “yo ho ho” & a bottle of cider, I’d round up my mateys & away we would ride. But shiver me timbers, some landlubbing fat cats Are giving us pirates a terrible name. They’re trashing the code we have lived by for ages & swapping our dissolute honor for shame. [chords: When I (Am) was a child (F), how I loved (C) to play pi- (G) rates...]

[JennetPreston]

@JennetPreston VERSES 3 & 4

The old pirates knew that people ain’t cargo;

When they took a slaver, they gained only crew,

But our board-room Blackbeards, while calling them “brother,”

Pay workers less wages than slaves would be due.

Way back in the day, how the state used to hunt us;

They’d jail us and hang us, a warning to be.

When modern-day pirates lose booty they’ve stolen,

They’re rewarded with gold from the state treasury.

[JennetPreston]

@JennetPreston VERSES 1 & 2 When I was a child, how I loved to play pirates, Black flag on my bike and a sword by my side. With a loud “yo ho ho” and a bottle of cider, I’d round up my mateys and away we would ride. But shiver me timbers, some landlubbing fat cats Are giving us pirates a terrible name. They’re trashing the code we have lived by for ages And swapping our dissolute honor for shame. [chords: When I (Am) was a child (F), how I loved (C) to play pi- (G) rates...] (excuse the repeat)

[JennetPreston]

@JennetPreston VERSES 5 & 6

Old pirates were fearsome in dress and behavior;

They’d capture a prize without firing a ball.

Today’s pirates wear masks of kindness and virtue,

Their swords unsuspected ‘til run through us all.

You think you’re on top ‘cause you’re smarter than others;

What you really have more of is cruelty and greed.

But you’d better watch out, there’s a mutiny coming;

Look here, in the streets, for the signs you should heed.

[JennetPreston]

@JennetPreston VERSES 7 & 8

Your cronies won’t help, nor your Wharton diploma;

Your offshore accounts bring not safety, but shame.

Even faced with your crimes, you will rationalize fiercely:

“Their troubles aren’t my fault! They’d all do the same!”

I had a fine dream about modern-day pirates:

They were all bound in chains, never more to be free.

They were walking the plank, headed straight for the bottom,

Bottom line of their ledgers, far under the sea.

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[dcblome]

Thanks for documenting this event, Love the song and the video! Please post the lyrics--would like to read them.