Talking NPR Blues
I turned on my radio and spun the dial
Thought I'd listen to some news for awhile
I grabbed the knob spun it around
Got NPR here's what I found
Real news hardly a trace
Just one damn marathon market place
The NASDAQ's up the DOWs in the cellar
NPR sold out to Rockefeller
Hostil takeover, real hostil
Well I hear all about the anti trust
And all the day traders who bit the dust
Mergers, buyouts, and aqusitions
Low down crooks in high positions
Wheelers, dealers, and CEO's
Fired and payed off through the nose
Buying yachts and fancy homes
With the bailout money from the savings and loans
And I get pissed, off that is
It's dot com this and dot com that
And the underwriters are a gettin fat
On air waves stole from you and me
By a bunch of thieves called the FCC
They don't give a damn what we want and need
They've all caved into corporate greed
And sold us out to the ruling class
Well the whole damn bunch can dot my com
This is a family show folks
FCC says, watch your language
English, what's yours?
I got tired of being treated like a veg
So I called up the station and canceled my pledge
In a mighty act of liberation
Sent the money off to my community station
I said I love you, but if you blow it
I'll sures as hell let you know it
I'll knock the radio off the shelf
Buy a transmitter and do it myself
White Beard the pirate
This is radio station HOBO
Broadcasting on vagrancy of sixty to ninety days
Signing off, for now
copywright Bruce "Utah" Phillips
I turned on my radio and spun the dial
Thought I'd listen to some news for awhile
I grabbed the knob spun it around
Got NPR here's what I found
Real news hardly a trace
Just one damn marathon market place
The NASDAQ's up the DOWs in the cellar
NPR sold out to Rockefeller
Hostil takeover, real hostil
Well I hear all about the anti trust
And all the day traders who bit the dust
Mergers, buyouts, and aqusitions
Low down crooks in high positions
Wheelers, dealers, and CEO's
Fired and payed off through the nose
Buying yachts and fancy homes
With the bailout money from the savings and loans
And I get pissed, off that is
It's dot com this and dot com that
And the underwriters are a gettin fat
On air waves stole from you and me
By a bunch of thieves called the FCC
They don't give a damn what we want and need
They've all caved into corporate greed
And sold us out to the ruling class
Well the whole damn bunch can dot my com
This is a family show folks
FCC says, watch your language
English, what's yours?
I got tired of being treated like a veg
So I called up the station and canceled my pledge
In a mighty act of liberation
Sent the money off to my community station
I said I love you, but if you blow it
I'll sures as hell let you know it
I'll knock the radio off the shelf
Buy a transmitter and do it myself
White Beard the pirate
This is radio station HOBO
Broadcasting on vagrancy of sixty to ninety days
Signing off, for now
copywright Bruce "Utah" Phillips
Performed by Ken Shaw