Monday, December 23, 2024

An IT IS HIGH holiday classic... Barry McGuire's Eve of Christmas

The Fox News tree, it is explodin.'
Tucker flairin’, Trump unloadin,’
They re-write laws just to keep us all from votin,’
You don't believe in science, but what’s that phone you’re totin?'
They say even the Jordan River’s got ballots floatin,’
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
How you don't believe we're on the eve...
     of Christmas…


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Yeah, Bitcoin’s so high, I feel like celebratin,’
I’m sitting here, self-vaccinatin.'
Podcast experts say we don’t need no protectin’
Handful of senators still selling ivermectin,
Stockings hung with care, they bring no inspiration.
Bags full of goodies priced high from inflation,
This whole holiday scene is just too frustratin,’
And you tell me over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve...
of Christmas...

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See this air fryer? It was made in Red China.
I bought it in a CVS in Selma, Alabama.
Jeff Bezos may go up for three hours in space,
But when tax time comes, he won’t pay a trace,
The wavin’ of the guns, the playin’ to the base,
Meet your next baby-sitter, and hope it’s not Matt Gaetz.

And you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
You don’t believe we’re on the eve...
of Christmas.

14 comments:

JM said...

Timely and heartwarming, Duque. Regarding the ivermectin, I did get the latest Covid vaccine on Saturday, but noticed that the Rite Aid I went to also sold bleach. Probably nothing...

DickAllen said...
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DickAllen said...

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant ED!

Unlike our New York sports teams. On one hand we have the Yankees crack analytics team playing Strat-O-Matic baseball, and on the other, the Jets owner taking trading advice from his son's Madden football ratings, and the Mara family doing, well...nothing. Has there been a Rangers sighting in the last twenty years? And the Knicks? Talk to me in June. No wonder it's been a bleak winter. We're not on the eve, it's already here.

I guess Goldy still rates high on his baseball card. The Yankees have become a team of has-beens and never-was's. Aching backs and pulled hammies by the All-Star break.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Great work, Peerless Leader! And what a sad damned year!

AboveAverage said...

Ha

AboveAverage said...

Oh boy - Oh Boy - OH BOY!

Doug K. said...

El Duque - Outstanding. You have channeled the rage of Shiva.

Hoss - "And what a sad damned year!"

That's what they said in 1941. This shit is just getting started.

Dick - The Giants are in a league of their own right now. I was a little nervous watching yesterday until the FIRST pick six. Then I knew it was going to be OK. Then again the last time they had the number one pick in the draft they chose Tucker Fredrickson over Gayle Sayers and Dick Butkis.

The Rangers implosion is weird. I mean they won the President's Cup last year with the best record in hockey. Didn't make the finals but they were good. Don't know why they dropped off a cliff this season.

The Knicks are fun to watch and it's easy to spot when they don't have it and go do something else. Maybe no finals for them either but odds are you get a good game.

Carl J. Weitz said...

@ El D-Excellent, El Duque, Excellent! Might be your best ever. I'm going to borrow it and paste it for my FB friends. With proper attribution, of course.
@ Doug-If I ever by an apartment building, even as small as the one Sydney Fields owned, I'm going to name it " The Shiva Arms."

Carl J. Weitz said...

buy

Doug K. said...

Good one. I just bought a Susquehanna Hat Co. T-Shirt for my self as a holiday gift to me from me.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/669799070/susquehanna-hat-company

Carl J. Weitz said...

Susquehanna Hat Co. on Floogle Street? I was born on Floogle Street, my entire family was raised on Floogle Street. Go on, say something bad about my brother, tell me why he shouldn't get out of jail on parole! Is that a Susquehanna Hat you're wearing? Did you know theyre made by little girls with little curls? Child labor violations....forced to work 14 hours a day! Cheap imitation leather bands, inferior straw! This is what I think about Susquehanna Hats-"Pow"!

Mr Fields owned the "Venus DeMilo Arms."

BTR999 said...

Absolutely brilliant duque! Barry McGuire‘s original is an all-time fav of mine, it was actually just a demo that got leaked.

Jaraxle said...

This was the best thing I read all year

Hinkey Haines said...

Getting “ivermectin” into a rhyme is top-shelf.