Here it is!
Reggie Miles made it into the Wall Street Journal
A most unlikely place for a Pike Place Market Busker!


"Wall Street Bail Out Blues" by Reggie Miles

Everybody's bloggin' 'bout The 2008 recession
It's a who's who of who's lost everything
And who's gonna get possession

There's a bailout coming, but it's not for you.
It's for all those creeps hiding what they do.

So far, about 72,000 people have given it a listen on YouTube. Only about 650 have tuned in to guitarist Reggie Miles's recession-related posting on the same site, but he doesn't feel ignored.

Musicians Marcy Shaffer, pictured, and Reggie Miles, below, are among the tunesmiths who've tried to set the nation's economic woes to song.

A longtime busker who plays most days at Seattle's Pike Place Market, Mr. Miles says he has never had the money to buy stocks and bonds and that his only retirement plan is to stay healthy enough to keep playing until he drops dead.

The 54-year-old was inspired to write about Wall Street's current troubles one day last October after watching TV coverage of a particularly bad day in the market. "All of a sudden, my ear got kind of attuned to all the jargon they were using, and it hit me that those were some great lines," says Mr. Miles, who hopes that the resulting song, "Wall Street Bail Out Blues," will help listeners vent their feelings.

Mr. Miles certainly does in the second of the song's 14, sometimes caustic verses:

Wall Street millionaires
Vultures comin' home to roost
They want more corporate welfare
To pad their golden parachutes

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Well done Reggie!
And a nice picture there too!

Cheers, S. in Seattle