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“You Didn’t Build That!”

A Song from Julia

It’s Cash for You*

It’s cash for you, folks, so you will vote for us.
There’s no need to make a fuss;
bribes are hardly new: it’s cash for you!

(It’s what we do!)

It’s great for you, folks, don’t lie awake all night;
don’t put a shining light on shit we threw—
that’s what we do: ever lie to you.

Cash for you, for skies must fall, and polar bears are few,
without this tax we’d be nowhere at all; put a price on C-O-2!

(It’s cash for you!)

It’s cash for you, so there can be a spring,
so you can hear the pollies sing who wouldn’t have a clue.
So it’s cash for you! It’s cash for you
from incompetents who will ever lie to you,
so it may not ring true from this rotten crew,
’cause we’re deep in poo, from all we do,
but there’s cash for you…

*  with apologies to Bob Dylan.

UPDATE I (27 June):  a mix of the song is added. 

UPDATE II (27 June):  a harder mix of the song—with more drums and more steel guitar—is added. 

UPDATE III (2 July):  I dashed off these lines in response to a comment on Tim Blair’s ’blog:

The dear beloved leader speaks for all
in tones which make the skin of pedants crawl;
but method lies beneath her gruesome speech:
to give, according to his needs, to each;
to bring about an earthly paradise,
and all by following the best advice
in Capital and other works from them
who ever theorize by apothegm.
It can’t be accidental, you will find,
that leaders want the people to be blind
to all the wicked, rotten things they do
but meekly take their bribes: ”It’s Cash for You!”

Locus Ultimus

A “Last Post” for Anzac Day.

Faking Man-Made Global Warming

I have finally completed the production of a few mixes of a song—“What Shall We Do with the Missing Data?”—which I composed in November, 2009, shortly after the release of the “climate-gate” e-mails. 

What Shall We Do with the Missing Data?

How shall we deal with egregious errors?

How can we spread more alarmist terrors?

What could we fake to create a scare as

good as global warming?

     Faking man-made global warming.

Soon your power must be dearer;

Armageddon is much nearer;

evidence, we say, is clearer

for that global warming.

Now it seems the weather’s cooling;

numbers drop of those we’re fooling;

people whom we should be ruling

must fear global warming.

Dr. Jones is now quite shaken,

feeling that he’s cooked his bacon;

maybe he was just mistaken

over global warming.

What shall we do with the missing data?

How shall we hide all the graphs’ stigmata?

How shall we keep all our fees pro rata

while we fake world warming?

     Faking man-made global warming.

Oh, dear, no, the seas aren’t rising;

powercos though are downsizing;

stop those sceptics analysing

man-made global warming!

We must keep the mob from waking;

hide how much that we were taking;

Mann and Jones et Al. were faking

man-made global warming.

Quench the opposition fires;

all who disagree are liars;

we’ll defame those bad deniers

of our global warming.

What shall we do with the evil-doers?

What shall we do with the peer-reviewers?

What shall we do with corrupting CRUers

faking global warming?

     Faking man-made global warming.

UPDATE I (31 August):  see James Delingpole’s “‘Climate scepticism is the new racism’ says Gore”.  Albert “Götterdämmerung” Gore does indeed insist on defaming all heretical sceptics.

UPDATE II (31 January, 2012):  with the sad demise of mp3.com.au, various mixes of this song are no longer available; I shall, I hope, upload the song to other sites eventually. 

UPDATE III (7 March):   one mix is now available at SoundCloud.

Gillard the Liar: “No ‘Carbon’ Tax”

A song from Gillard the Liar, “No Carbon Tax” (with words by Julia Gillard and music by Deadman Turner), can be found at mp3.com.au.

UPDATE—This is now available on YouTube: