wrote:
Anybody else remember the Kinks song with the words:

".............and we will nationalize the wealthy companies, and all
the directors will be answerable to me, no class dinstiction, no slums
or poverty, so workers of the nation unite..............." I can just
imagine Harry singing it.


We only "socialize" corporate millionaires in this country. Everyone
else takes it up the butt.

Besides, I always preferred John Lennon's "Imagine":


Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

On Oct 7, 8:30 pm, Boater wrote:
wrote:
Anybody else remember the Kinks song with the words:

".............and we will nationalize the wealthy companies, and all
the directors will be answerable to me, no class dinstiction, no slums
or poverty, so workers of the nation unite..............." I can just
imagine Harry singing it.

We only "socialize" corporate millionaires in this country. Everyone
else takes it up the butt.

Besides, I always preferred John Lennon's "Imagine":

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

I am really disappointed. Can anybody provide the lines that really
make it appropriate for Harry? Wow, that sone did John Lennon a lot
of good in a world filled with whack jobs.

wrote:
On Oct 7, 8:30 pm, Boater wrote:
wrote:
Anybody else remember the Kinks song with the words:
".............and we will nationalize the wealthy companies, and all
the directors will be answerable to me, no class dinstiction, no slums
or poverty, so workers of the nation unite..............." I can just
imagine Harry singing it.
We only "socialize" corporate millionaires in this country. Everyone
else takes it up the butt.

Besides, I always preferred John Lennon's "Imagine":

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

I am really disappointed. Can anybody provide the lines that really
make it appropriate for Harry? Wow, that sone did John Lennon a lot
of good in a world filled with whack jobs.


Speaking of whack jobs, your gal Sarah Palin seems to attract quite a
number of them to her "base" rallies, and just like Sarah, they "shout out."

On Oct 7, 8:44 pm, Boater wrote:
wrote:
On Oct 7, 8:30 pm, Boater wrote:
wrote:
Anybody else remember the Kinks song with the words:
".............and we will nationalize the wealthy companies, and all
the directors will be answerable to me, no class dinstiction, no slums
or poverty, so workers of the nation unite..............." I can just
imagine Harry singing it.
We only "socialize" corporate millionaires in this country. Everyone
else takes it up the butt.

Besides, I always preferred John Lennon's "Imagine":

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

I am really disappointed. Can anybody provide the lines that really
make it appropriate for Harry? Wow, that sone did John Lennon a lot
of good in a world filled with whack jobs.

Speaking of whack jobs, your gal Sarah Palin seems to attract quite a
number of them to her "base" rallies, and just like Sarah, they "shout out."

No, NO, NO, Not "LolA, L-O-L-A, Lola" A different Kinks song. I dont
know if Harry is THAT kind of guy.

On Oct 7, 8:33*pm, wrote:
On Oct 7, 8:30 pm, Boater wrote:





wrote:
Anybody else remember the Kinks song with the words:

".............and we will nationalize the wealthy companies, and all
the directors will be answerable to me, no class dinstiction, no slums
or poverty, so workers of the nation unite..............." *I can just
imagine Harry singing it.

We only "socialize" corporate millionaires in this country. Everyone
else takes it up the butt.

Besides, I always preferred John Lennon's "Imagine":

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

I am really disappointed. *Can anybody provide the lines that really
make it appropriate for Harry? *Wow, that sone did John Lennon a lot
of good in a world filled with whack jobs.- Hide quoted text -

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That' is from the Kink's touring rock musical "Preservation: A Play in
Two Acts" Davies was quite into political plight.

From: http://www.freecolorado.com/1999/01/kinks.html



"In the mid-70s the Kinks toured to perform their rock musical
Preservation: A Play in Two Acts. Davies's premise for this ambitious
work was to forecast a society in which a corrupt government
approaching anarchy allows a crime boss and land developer named Mr.
Flash to flourish at the expense of the citizenry:

The people were scared
They didn't know where to turn
They couldn't see any salvation
From the hoods and the spivs
And the crooked politicians
Who were cheating and lying to the nation
The people cry out against a system where the free market is ruined by
political and criminal corruption. Unfortunately, the people in this
society aren't very smart (too much state-controlled "education,"
perhaps?); they yearn for yet another politician to solve their
problems for them:

Show us a man who'll be our Saviour and will lead us
Show us a man who'll understand us, guide us and lead us
Enter Mr. Black, leader of what should today be referred to as the
Religious Left (unlike the US media, Davies knows pro-State religious
movements can be socialist as well as fascist). Mr. Black's religious
movement has little to do with spirituality and much to do with
concentrating worldly power into his scheming hands:

I am your man
I'll work out a five year plan
So vote for me brothers
And I will save this land
And we will nationalize the wealthy companies
And all the directors will be answerable to me
There'll be no shirking of responsibilities
So people of the nation unite.
Mr. Black uses a moralizing crusade to mask his intentions of becoming
dictator. Like any authoritarian with no ideology other than raw
personal ambition, Mr. Black will use any group's concerns to advance
his own political career:

When a solution comes
It won't take sides with anyone
Regardless of race or creed,
The whole wide world is gonna feel the squeeze
I have waited a long, long time
Biding my time and waiting on the sidelines
Watching it all go wrong.
Witnessing the disintegration,
Everybody's searching desperately,
They've got to run to someone
And that someone's going to be me.
In short, a civil war breaks out between the forces of Mr. Flash and
Mr. Black while a confused populace stands in between. A last minute
repentance on Mr. Flash's part is too late to stop the ascendancy of
Mr. Black's party to power. In a refreshing departure from saccharine
endings, Davies concludes the album with the nation in Mr. Black's
iron grip, curfews and price controls clamping down on the citizens
who elected him. Their desire for security and freedom from rampant
crime led the nation into a socialist dictatorship.

I doubt that Davies is a member of any political movement. But some of
his lyrical themes and the fact that his band owns their own
recordings, thus providing them equality in dealing with record
companies (whose abuse of artists is infamous), indicate a man of
strong independence and reluctance to trust institutions. Great music
and great themes --what more could a Kinks fan want?"