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I CAME UPON AN ENGINEER

[Wall Street vs. America's Industry; Economic Plutocracy]

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To "it came upon a midnight clear"
(Words by Edmund Hamilton Sears/
Music by Richard Storrs Willis)

ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY GREG HILFMAN

Parody Lyrics by Marcy Shaffer

from song of the robber baron
a versusplus.com econoparody operetta

robber baron:
I CAME UPON AN ENGINEER.
HIS THREE PH.D.s, MIT's.
A MIND SO BLINDING I SAID:
KID, WORK HERE!
MY FUND HAS STUNNED KEY TREASURIES!
 
YOUR FLAIR COULD MAKE YOU A BILLIONAIRE.
THROUGH DOING CONSTRUING OF STATS.
UP WHERE WE ALL BREATHE A SPECIAL AIR.
AN AIR SO RARE WE DON’T CARE TO SHARE.
WE WHO ARE THE NEW PLUTOCRATS!
 
WITH EACH EQUATION, YOU STRESSED MY TEST.
YOU SOARED, KID, YOU SCORED THIS REWARD.
AS YOU'RE NOT ASIAN, I'M MORE IMPRESSED!
GOOD LORD, HOW I WANT YOU ON BOARD!
 
SUCH JOYS, SUCH TOYS, KID, FROM MY EMPLOYS.
A TOWER OF POWER I SWING.
PLUS WHIRLS OF GIRLS, AND/OR CONVOYS OF BOYS.
A COUNTERPOISE FOR MY VICEROYS.
COME FLOWER IN MY BOWER OF BLING.
 
engineer:
hey mister robber baron
man, there's no debatin'
you rule and that's cool
you're captivatin' as satan
 
you're hauntin' my quantin'
to goose your abstruse stuff
but i am wantin' to produce stuff
for use stuff
 
like funky chips
and funky ships
to base in space or chase trace blips
 my thingamabobs will bringama-jobs
 
re-industrialize
spur u.s. feet to the beat
meet your new silicon-trepreneur
sweet
 
vc's gushin' i'll be flushin' the chinese
who i can tell, LOL, you do swell to appease
 
mister robber baron, we don't fit one bit
you just gild
i submit
you don't build shitret
 
and your middle class hole
a mass hole
which is rich, asshole
got no itch to be your bitchh
 
restatin', pal, you go pluck some other sucker
and pucker
i'm creatin' value
motherfucker
 
so no i won't go
to grow your dough
'cause dude, i conclude you are just a ho
a ho
a ho
a ho, ho, ho
 and you blow
 
robber baron:
YOU APPEAR SO CLEAR, KID, CAREER IN GEAR.
WITH YOUR SLAP AT THE MAP I PROPOSE.
BUT A GADGETEER SHOULD REVERE, NOT CASHIER.
THE CHAP WHO'LL ZAP CAPITAL FLOWS.
 
SO CRUSADE AS THINGAMABOBBY KING.
DESIGN THAT, PIPE-LINE THAT, TO SHINE.
WHILE I RAID YOUR TRADE SECRET ARCADE FOR BEIJING.
UNSWAYED BY AMERICA'S FADE FROM THE RING.
AS A NEW PLUTOCRAT, IT'S ALL FINE.
AS A TRUE PLUTOCRAT, IT'S ALL MINE.
 
 

GARY STOCKDALE - lead vocal (Robber Baron)
RANDY CRENSHAW - lead vocal (Engineer)
ANGIE
JARÉE - Background Vocal
  janis liebhart - Background Vocal
GARY STOCKDALE - Background Vocal
Greg Hilfman - music director 

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Mid-Winter"

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[Financial Plutocracy]

To "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"

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NOBODY KNOWS THE BUBBLES I'VE SEEN

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ROBO-'LY RIGHT

[Robo-signing, Foreclosures, Mortgage Securitizations, Banks]

To "O Holy Night"
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THE PARTY'S
OVER-TURE

[Econoparody Sampler]

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BEARISH

[The Economy]
To "Cherish"
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DOMINIQUE

[The Euro Zone Debt Crisis, The IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn]
To "Dominique"

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AND NOW, A WORD FROM THE ECONOMY HERSELF

[The Economy]
To "I Will Survive"

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OH, CRE (OH, COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE)

To "O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)"

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THE DOLLAR AND
ITS DIVING

[Great Recession Remix]

To "The Holly and the Ivy"
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