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Thread #20263   Message #210235
Posted By: GUEST,Jim Dixon
11-Apr-00 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Folk Songs for Conservatives
Subject: RE: Folk Songs for Conservatives
I find this fascinating. I've often wondered, why aren't there any conservative folk songs? Not that I would sing them . . . I looked at the e-Bay ad, and I was disappointed there wasn't more description. I can barely make out the printing on the album cover. Here is a partial transcription:

"Folk Songs for Conservatives
Produced, Written and Directed by Noel E. Parmente Jr. and Marshall J. Dodge 3rd
Sung by Noel X and His Unbleached Muslims
?
I Dreamed I Saw Roy Cohn Last Night
? Alive-Alive-O
Won't You Come Home, Bill Buckley
? John Birch
Hang Earl Warren
Hang Down Your Head Tom Dewey
?"

(Question marks represent what I couldn't read.) There used to be a Maine humorist-storyteller named Marshall Dodge. He died in 1982. Any relation, I wonder? Do you suppose the whole thing is a leg-pull? I don't know; "Noel X and His Unbleached Muslims" sounds kind of vicious.

I also checked out other items sold by the same vendor. Most of the titles sounded pretty bizarre. The only other apparently political one was "The Goldwaters: Folk Songs to Bug Liberals"

While searching the internet for conservative folk songs, I ran across this essay called Songs of the Left, written by a man named Lynn Wooley (a victim of the "Boy Named Sue" syndrome, perhaps?), a conservative, who out of frustration that there were no good conservative folk songs, tried to write one. He gives the lyrics. Read them and see what you think.