Rich People
Carsie Blanton (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD_eZg70Ms0

sounds like a Peggy Lee and Bernie Sanders collaboration!

Seems like bad news all of the time
We got floods and fires and wars and crime
They try to tell you who you ought to blame
But I know who it is & it’s always the same

Don’t be ashamed if you get confused
When you talk to your friends or you watch the news
they gotta tell you where it all went wrong
You don’t have to argue just sing this song

Rich people been stackin’ the decks
Rich people with big fat checks
Rich people, they’re havin’ a ball
Rich people been fuckin’ (screwin’) us all

Back in Nineteen Seventy-nine
The Western World was in decline
So Ronald Reagan and Thatcher, too
They fixed it up, but not for you (just for ..

Rich people - stackin’ the deck
Rich people with big fat checks
Rich people, they’re havin’ a ball
Rich people been fuckin’ (screwin’) us all


Who runs the world? It ain’t the Jews. Rich people don’t pay no dues.
Who did the crime? It ain’t the blacks. Rich people don’t pay no tax.
Who took your job? It ain’t immigration. Rich people in corporations.
Who took the vote? It ain’t rednecks. Rich people with big fat checks.
        CHORUS

I have sung this with added verse and coda lines:

Climate change they still deny
With lobbies and lackeys to spread their lie
But they’re building bunkers where they can hide
From the gathering storm and the rising tide
        CHORUS

Who makes us weak? It ain’t the “woke.” Rich people and that’s no joke.
Who should we fear? It ain’t the poor. Rich people and that’s for sure.
        CHORUS (… in private jets)

Carsie notes that "a handful of people are deciding who has access to healthcare or housing or nutritious food, what our scientists study, who gets to run in our elections and what we are allowed to vote on. They also fund our universities and run our media companies, which ensures that we are usually blaming somebody besides them. I got the idea for this song from an ongoing argument with somebody in my life who is decidedly left of center, which means they aren't blaming blacks or Jews or immigrants, but Republicans and rednecks and "idiots". I probably don't need to tell you this, but that's another load of bullhockey. As long as we're blaming each other, we aren't blaming them."

I note, curiously, that Carsie Blanton sings “Fucking” (not screwing) but feels a need to use a euphemism for bullshit. Go figure!?!