NOTE: This song is not a call to action. It’s a history lesson, about the Whiskey Rebellion….sort of punk rock “Schoolhouse Rock.” lol….
NEW song from Right Arm of Wyoming. DOWNLOAD MP3 HERE. (RIGHT CLICK TO SAVE.)
Song is dedicated to my great great great great great great grandfather, Joseph Cornish, who died on the American side in the American Revolution.
LYRICS for “Would you Tar and Feather a Tax Collector?” :
CHORUS 1:
Would you tar and feather a tax collector?
Like they did in days of old?
Would you tar and feather a tax collector?
For breaking in and stealing your gold?
CHORUS 2:
GET OUT AND FIGHT!
GET UP AND FIGHT!
STAND UP AND FIGHT!
FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
GET OUT AND FIGHT!
GET UP AND FIGHT!
WAKE UP AND FIGHT!
FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
The American Revolution was mostly
fought for just two things:
taxation and trying to take our guns.
My great great great great great great grand dad
died in that war.
He took a musketball from King George’s goons.
A few years later, in 1791 the federalist gub’mint
sent us the bill for that war
with even higher taxes than before
That federalist traitor Alexander Hamilton
acted like the new King George.
He tried to take honest money from the distillers.
But the brave men of Pennsylvania didn’t want a nanny state
so they tarred and feathered a tax collector
(CHORUS 1)
Flash forward 219 years
The new Alexander Hamilton is trying the same plan
but on a much larger scale
The gub’mint’s much bigger
And most people are sheep
waiting to be sheered in their sleep
(CHORUS 1)
The gub’mint buys guns by the millions
Meanwhile, they’re taking ours.
What do you think they’ve got in mind?
I’m not saying “it’s time.”
I’m just sayin’ ya gotta look behind.
Those who ignore history
have no future.
And King George wants us all subdued.
Middle 8:
It’s hard to watch my country being destroyed
It makes me very sad.
When I’m sad I don’t feel sorry for myself.
The sorrow turns to anger, which
hardens into steely reserve.
(CHORUS 2)
I’ll probably get on some list for singing this song
Screw ‘em – I’m right, they’re wrong.
We were taught to love our country, at one time.
But now?
That’s a hate crime.
Tags: history lessons, punk rock schoolhouse rock, tar and feather, tax day, tax protest, tea party, whiskey rebellion
I would. Does that make me a racist?
nope. Especially not if you’re the same race as the tax collector.
MWD
Perhaps not racist but according to Bill Clinton I might be like the Timmy McVeigh.
Yeah, Clinton basically seems to say that if you peacefully criticize the gov, you are a terrorist.
What an idiot.
He’s just trying to quash free speech.
MWD
I like it Michael, it’s changed since you first posted a version of it on Conpunk.
I love how they group all militias together with White Supremacists. My AP US Government teacher likes to lump Militias and the Tea Partiers together with White Supremacists.
‘Course he also thinks I’m callous because I’m against welfare programs and said that if everyone pays into Social Security and Medicare and supposedly benefit from it, then they should be able to opt out of paying it in return for none of the “Benefits”.
I guess it’s callous to be independant and self-sufficient.
Glad you like it, JD.
And I think your teacher should be jailed for lying to his students.
MWD
p.s. I saw a science show last night about continental drift, it basically said that everything is drifting toward Alaska!
JD, check this out:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041510/content/01125110.guest.html
MWD
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Nice Michael. My teacher asked me if I thought that I could afford medical insurance, cost of living etc when I’m 65 and I told him that if I took the money I’d save from not paying for Social Security and Medicare and invested I hopefully could. And if I couldn’t then I’d work as long as I could until I could. And if even that doesn’t work than instead of burdening my family for paying to keep me alive I’d walk into oncoming traffic.
He proceeded to say in a round about way that those who are against Social Security are heartless (he did use that word).
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I am 1 a christian 1st and Jesus compaired tax collector with hookers. HMMMMM I wonder why. I guese because there hores. I think If you collect taxes and you depend on the amount you collect to make a living and drag the person you have a grip on in the mud then you are a no good terd and most tax collectors are. most colectors are and will not make it to heaven. So I say go ahead collect your money as you do you are heaping coal on your soul. The only way into heaven is to make restitution and return the over charged amount. But If you dont care or wont then its ok,Cause you will ,only the hard way
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