Songs for Donny to sing

Subject: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 10:07 AM

Describe the candidate and/or their platform by using a song they might sing. For example, Trump might sing:

Battle hymn of the Republican
Four prominent bastards

One big rule: if challenged you must be able to post the lyrics.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 10:28 AM

Ochs' "Cops Of The World" might be a place to start

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: mkebenn
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 11:33 AM

Don't know if it was ever put to music. Vachel Lindsey's "Congo"

"The mumbo jumbo will hodoo you" Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: gillymor
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 12:30 PM

For Donny to sing:

"Step Right Up" - Tom Waits

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 12:50 PM

He could cover Sinatra's "My Way"

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: gnu
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 02:04 PM

Given his recent... ahhh... ONE of his absolutely insane, bizarre and troubling diatribes... Language warning.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 02:59 PM

I challenge Rap

Do you use my version or the Capitol Steps?

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 03:38 PM

Well, Gnu's got the number one Trump hit so far!

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: gillymor
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 05:49 PM

I'm the Slime- Frank Zappa

"I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away..."

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 07:10 PM

Here's one that somehow seems to fit remarkably well. There are plenty more verses around, but sometimes little is more, and these do seem to match the man. (I posted this in a thread a few weeks back, but so what?)

I wanted to go on the stage
And now my ambitions, I've got 'em
My friends they all think I'm the rage
As the hole in the Elephant's bottom

Last night, I had some bad luck
The manager said I was rotten
I happened to get my head stuck
Through the hole in the elephant's bottom

My part it is not very long
Nor yet is it easily forgotten
If you're looking for me come and look
Through the hole in the elephant's bottom.

Shouldn't this count as a music thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 08:48 PM

Challenge which one?

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Louie Roy
Date: 21 Aug 16 - 11:10 PM

Trump is probably singing loud and clear Goodbye lying crookity Hillary Goodbye

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 03:41 AM

I would posit my song about "Pure Finding*" (6th one down). But it is about a chap collecting Dog Crap not spouting it.

*it was a Victorian profession, sold to tanneries to soften leather. Alkaline excreta counteracts the tannic acid used to tan hides. Pigeon poo is used in Arab countries.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs for Donny to sing
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 16 - 05:31 PM

Sing a song of TrumpPence,
A pocket full of lies.
Four and twenty blackmen
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened,
The birds began to stink;
Wasn't that a dainty dish,
To make those people extinct?

Donald was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlour,
Eating speed and honey.

The gardener in the garden,
spreading the manure,
When down came a blackbird
pecking like a skewer

They sent for Donald's doctor,
who sewed him up again
He sewed him all so neatly,
the seam was never seen.