Your State is Red, My State is Blue...

[hardheadjarhead]

Just got this in an e-mail. Enjoy.

(Anybody want to put it to music?)


Regards,

Steve


My State is Blue

Today you are joyous while I'm filled with rue
Your state is red; my state is blue

I canvassed, I voted, what more could I do?
Your state is red; my state is blue

I want diplomacy, you like a coup
Your state is red; my state is blue

You protect companies I want to sue
Your state is red; my state is blue

You promote abstinence; I like to screw
Your state is red; my state is blue

You say "be strong" and I say "be true"
Your state is red; my state is blue

I said "invasion" and you said "rescue"
Your state is red; my state is blue

I say "homophobia," you say "value"
Your state is red; my state is blue

My pets go "meow" and your pets go "moo"
Your state is red; my state is blue

I like rights (say, free speech) you want to undo
Your state is red; my state is blue

You like the Cowboys, I side with the Sioux
Your state is red; my state is blue

You think that crap in the Bible is true
Your state is red; my state is blue

You're killing health care and I've got the flu
Your state is red; my state is blue

I fought the good fight, did all I could do
Your state is red; my state is blue

There are millions of me, and yet more of you
Your state is red; my state is blue

Oh Cheney, Cheney, you b****rd, I'm through
Your state is red; my state is blue

by Adam Wasson
www.selfdestructionhandbook.com

 

[Melissa426]

This took me a little time, but I think might have the perfect melody, with a few modifications.

"Blowin' in the Wind," by Bob Dylan. A '60's protest song by one of the premier poets of his generation ought to give the tune the appropriate "liberal" sway.

It works better with apostrophes, though. With apologies to Mr. Wasson,
the second refrain of each verse needs to be :
"your state is red; my state's blue"

After every two verses, the chorus would be;
"Yes, your state is red and my state is blue;
your state is red and mine is blue." (Substituted for The answer my friend is blowin in the wind, the answer is blowin in the wind)

What do you think?
If anyone knows how to link to a song download site , we'd be in business.

Peace,
Melissa

 

[MisterMike]

I just got this one....although I don't think it can go to music like the last.

> The American way
>
>
> I cross the ocean,
> poor and broke,
> Take the bus,
> see employment folk.
>
> Nice man treat me
> good in there,
> Say I need to
> see welfare.
>
> Welfare say,
> "You come no more,
> We send cash
> right to your door."
>
> Welfare checks,
> they make you wealthy,
> Medicaid it keep
> you healthy!
>
> By and by,
> I got plenty money,
> Thanks to you,
> American dummy.
>
> Write to friends
> in motherland,
> Tell them 'come
> fast as you can.'
>
> They come in turbans
> and Ford trucks,
> I buy big house
> with welfare bucks
>
> They come here,
> we live together,
> More welfare checks,
> it gets better!
>
> Fourteen families,
> they moving in,
> But neighbor's patience wearing thin.
>
> Finally, white guy
> moves away,
> Now I buy his house,
> and then I say,
>
> "Find more aliens
> for house to rent."
> And in the yard
> I put a tent.
>
> Send for family
> they just trash,
> But they, too,
> draw the welfare cash!
>
> Everything is
> very good,
> And soon we
> own the neighborhood.
>
> We have hobby --
> it's called breeding,
> Welfare pay
> for baby feeding.
>
> Kids need dentist?
> Wife need pills?
> We get free!
> We got no bills!
>
> American crazy!
> He pay all year,
> To keep welfare
> running here.
>
> We think America
> darn good place!
> Too darn good for
> the white man race.
>
> If they no like us,
> they can scram,
> Got lots of room in
> Pakistan.
>
> (not pipickingn Pakistan, but it rimes)
>
>
>
>


Cpt...

 

[rmcrobertson]

Congratulations. That was authentically racist. And not because of its expression of opinions (to call them, "ideas," would be to dignify this sort of claptrap), but because of the absurd caricature of all immigrant speech and purposes, the sort of thing Americans used to find entertaining at minstrel shows.

One had thought better of the poster.

In advance, one apologizes for one's espousal of traditional American values, in a country built by immigrant labor. Apparently, respect, tolerance, and the belief in freedom and dignity have become obsolete in the New America. Apparently, the sorts of ideas and hopes expressed by a long line of Americans in brilliant language have become far less valuable than cheap, ninth-rate poetry written by the sorts of yahoos who think Limbaugh and Hannity and Savage and D'Souza are major intellects.

Will you be chainsawing the silly liberal motto off the Statue of Liberty soon?

And oh yes: this will be one's last post on this thread.