The Inauguration: Champagne in DC Beer Here

You know that old saying – champagne taste and beer money. “
Well, the champagne will be flowing in DC next week (while Michelle dazzles us with her new clothes). Meantime, the rest of us are out of beer money. The new administration should be ashamed of the ostentatious display the press is going gaga over. Is this to be a coronation (of the Crown Prince of Duplicity) or is it the installation of a responsible leader?

First the government bails out the rich banksters flying private jets, now the incoming administration is emulating their rich lifestyles while they talk about more bailout money. Don’t fool us with talk of stimulus money – if any of it reaches the pockets of  the peons , it will end up in the coffers of the rich the country is bailing out. 

I dedicate the following song to all the people who, like me, find the whole thing disgusting. Presidential inaugurations should be celebrated, not choreographed like a line of dancers in a top hat burlesque show.

BEER BARREL POLKA
Writers Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm, Jaramir Vejvoda

There’s a garden, what a garden

Only happy faces bloom there

And there’s never any room there

For a worry or a gloom there

Oh there’s music and there’s dancing

And a lot of sweet romancing

When they play the polka

They all get in the swing

 

Every time they hear that oom-pa-pa

Everybody feels so tra-la-la

They want to throw their cares away

They all go lah-de-ah-de-ay

Then they hear a rumble on the floor, the floor

It’s the big surprise they’re waiting for

And all the couples form a ring

For miles around you’ll hear them sing…

 

Roll out the barrel, we’ll have a barrel of fun

Roll out the barrel, we’ve got the blues on the run

Sing boom tararra, ring out a song of good cheer

Now’s the time to roll the barrel, for the gang’s all here

Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

So, if you can find enough people still employed who can swing for the beer, let’s all emulate Washington: Dance! Sing! Who knows what tomorrow will bring?