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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMI: Modified Christmas carols used to protest right-to-work legislation at Oakland Mall
from the Detroit Free Press:
They looked jolly in red scarves and reindeer antler headbands, but the carolers outside of Troys Oakland Mall today were actually protestors conveying a serious message: No to right-to-work legislation in Michigan.
And they delivered their feelings about proposed bills and Gov. Rick Snyder through pointed, modified Christmas carols. Think Frosty the Snowman.
Rick-y Snyder knew he couldnt get his way -- so he took the votes from the working folks so the wealthy get our pay, they sang.
Shalaya Bryant, who works at a nursing home, said the group was trying to send the message that right to work is not for Michigan. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20121209/NEWS03/121209027/Modified-Christmas-carols-used-protest-right-work-legislation-Oakland-Mall
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MI: Modified Christmas carols used to protest right-to-work legislation at Oakland Mall (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2012
OP
Unscrupulous modification of Christmas Caros is a well respected tradition...
DreamGypsy
Dec 2012
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DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)1. Unscrupulous modification of Christmas Caros is a well respected tradition...
Congratulations to Michigan Union Supporters!
Here is another reality-based Christmas song from mathematician, composer, and satirist Tom Lehrer.
So here goes. It has always seemed to me after all. That Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in.
I refer of course, to money. And yet none of the Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we celebrate it in the United States. That is to say the commercial spirit. So I should like to offer the following Christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.
Actually I did rather well myself, this last Christmas. The nicest present I received was a gift certificate "good at any hospital for a lobotomy". Rather thoughtful.
I refer of course, to money. And yet none of the Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we celebrate it in the United States. That is to say the commercial spirit. So I should like to offer the following Christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.
Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens,
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
"Just the thing I need! How nice!"
It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
Hark the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry, merchants,
May you make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
Actually I did rather well myself, this last Christmas. The nicest present I received was a gift certificate "good at any hospital for a lobotomy". Rather thoughtful.