I mean, where do I start? The less-than-successful singing-along to the audio recording? That it’s being sung in a church (or someplace set up for a church service)? Just the insanity which is the lyrics (and the message thereof)? Or that these people seem to truly believe it with the same unquenchable faith that they bring to their adherence to God?
My friends, I give you “The Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin.”
Okay, time to start drinking.
(Written and submitted to YouTube Tom Dempsey; vocals — the official ones, I assume — by Gary McVay.)
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It’s more expensive than the US, with higher tax, but we have (nearly) free healthcare, good beer and nothing mainstream close to the Tea Party. Do you want to know about emigrating?
Thanks for the offer, but I’ll stick it out. The local microbreweries do a fine job, and I get decent health care through my wife’s employer. Neither necessarily applies to all Americans, of course.
The CBC’s “As It Happens” chose this as their “Sound of the Day” for today.
I wouldn’t mind it so much if it were written at all well. However, there was little attention paid to the meter (extra syllables are crammed in willy-nilly) and there does not appear to have been any attempt to get the lines to rhyme.
Perhaps something like this would work:
Mine ears have heard the nonsense that she spouts all day and night.
No matter what she says she thinks that it’s completely right.
When I hear her talk I think that she must be quite tight.
Ms. Palin babbles on.
Worry, worry, all America!
Worry, worry, all America!
Worry, worry, all America!
Ms. Palin babbles on.
The third line is wrong. It’s two syllables short, but I cannot reproduce the meter of that line properly. Ugh. Help.
Actually, your chorus is a bit off, too — unless you make “Amer’ca” a two syllable word.
Your third line is okay, meter-wise — the syllables are a bit short but music allows that. “Quite tight” is a bit awkward, though. Maybe
When I hear her talk then for our nation I feel fright.
Hmmm. That’s clumsy construction. Or
If she comes to power we can kiss our land good-night.
Meh. Not happy with that, either.
Actually, your chorus is a bit off, too — unless you make “Amer’ca” a two syllable word.
Ugh. Right, I wound up with five syllables in the last phrase, not four. How did I miss that? >_<
Let's try:
Worry, worry, for our country!
I see you are going with 13 syllables for line 3, as did I. When I sing that, it sounds right. However, I see 15 syllables in the lyrics on Wikipedia, and I can sing that so that it sounds right, but different. I has a confusion.
We both are eliding the first two syllable (“He is”) (in a pause between the second and third line). It works acceptably, though.
If it were a hymn, “He is” would be in the measure before the main measures of that line.
I might use the word “nation” rather than “country” — sings better (the “a” being held long rather than the “uh” in country).