{"id":3085,"date":"2004-10-25T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2021-06-05T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:31:00","slug":"song-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/10\/25\/song-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    I just discovered this song, “Takin’ My Country Back”, by the Honky Tonkers for Truth. Here’s an excerpt:

I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
SON, YOU AIN’T BEEN DOIN? HER RIGHT
OH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKE
HOW YOU’VE BEEN TREATIN’ MY STARS AND STRIPES
YOU TOOK OUR JOBS AND SENT ’EM OVERSEAS
NOW WE OWE BILLIONS TO THE RED CHINESE
YOU BLEW THE BUDGET AND YOU BOTCHED IRAQ
SO I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK

WE HAD A BUNDLE IN THE TREASURY DRAWER
MORE THAN THERE HAD EVER BEEN BEFORE
BUT EVERY DAY WE’RE DROWNIN’ DEEPER IN DEBT
MAYBE FOUR YEARS SHOULD BE ALL YOU GET
THEN YOU GAVE TAX BREAKS TO THE MILLIONAIRES
AND TRIED TO MAKE THE WORKIN’ MAN PAY
BUT YOU CAN’T TAX A MAN WHEN HIS JOBS NOT THERE
NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY HEY

I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK
SON, YOU AIN’T BEEN DOIN’ HER RIGHT
OH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKE
HOW YOU’VE BEEN TREATIN’ MY STARS AND STRIPES
YOU GOT TOO MANY FANCY FRIENDS FOR ME
THE SAUDIS TREAT YOU LIKE YOU’RE ROYALTY
YOU BLEW THE BUDGET AND YOU BOTCHED IRAQ
NOW I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK

NOW I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WERE HOT
’CAUSE BIN LADEN NEVER DID GET CAUGHT
SO YOU SAID WE HAD SADDAM TO BLAME
TRIED TO TELL US IT WAS ALL THE SAME
BUT NOW THE YEARS ROLL BY AND OUR KIDS KEEP DYIN’
YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE A PLAN TO BRING ’EM HOME
AND THOSE W.M.D. YOU PROMISED ON T.V.
HEY ADMIT IT, YOU FIGURED IT WRONG\u2026
SO I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACK<\/i><\/blockquote>
    You can download the entire song, for free, at Takin’ My Country Back.com<\/a>, The music might not be for all tastes, but this song could possibly keep me from overplaying “Vertigo” for a while.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just discovered this song, “Takin’ My Country Back”, by the Honky Tonkers for Truth. Here’s an excerpt: I’M TAKIN’ MY COUNTRY BACKSON, YOU AIN’T BEEN DOIN? HER RIGHTOH I BEEN WATCHIN’ YOU AND I DON’T LIKEHOW YOU’VE … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}