To respond to the above,

Yes, I wrote "The Middle Class Life Is the Best of All" as satire. Listen closely to the words and they have bite. But as with many of the songs I write, I also tried to live in the skin of a booster of middle class life for just about three minutes. That was about the max I could manage.

I was tickled when my good friend Ed Trickett picked it up and sang it.

For some hearers, however, I can imagine the satire didn't come through. It's a funny thing about songs, once you set them afloat, they take on a life of their own, which may not be what you intended.

Bob