Watch the new Mellencamp video here!! AWESOME

[ShaneGR]

This probably cost him nothing. But the message against Bush is fantastic.

I recommend watching it.

Go to:
http://www.mellencamp.com/news/towashington.html

Click in this paragraph:

Watch the entire song NOW online: Real Video, QuickTime or Windows Media: low or high quality. If you are having trouble viewing the video read our help page.

[mandyky]

1. JC was just on CNN

They asked him about being anti-Iraq war, and it eventually got around to what happened with the Dixie Chicks.

Well, JC, he calmly went off he called Dumbya's "there is a price for free speech" ARROGANT!!

It was awesome!

[Melinda]

2. OMG, the message is spot on!! -Lyrics-

Thanks so much for posting this!!!


TO WASHINGTON

Eight years of peace and prosperity
Scandal in the White House
An election is what we need
From coast-to-coast to Washington

So America voted on a president
No one kept count
On how the election went
From Florida to Washington

Goddamn, said one side
And the other said the same
Both looked pretty guilty
But no one took the blame
From coast-to-coast to Washington

So a new man in the White House
With a familiar name
Said he had some fresh ideas
But it's worse now since he came
From Texas to Washington

And he wants to fight with many
And he says it's not for oil
He sent out the National Guard
To police the world
From Baghdad to Washington

What is the thought process
To take a humans life
What would be the reason
To think that this is right
From heaven to Washington
From Jesus Christ to Washington

[dobak]

5. The song has been around since the early 1900's...

Mellancamp changed the lyrics to fit today's problems

I think (but am not sure) that Woody Guthrie performed the song once, with lyrics reflecting his era.

Great song!

[dobak]

6. here we go...

..... it's "To Washington"--a modest rewrite of "White House Blues," a 1926 Charley Poole number about the McKinley assassination--that may cut the deepest. The first verses, setting the scene of the last presidential election, seem timeless, as if they're taking place far in the past; the final verses, about the Iraq war, are the sort of protest lyrics that don't outlast the time it takes to sing them. But it's the melody, picked out on mandolin by Mike Wanchic--the traditional power of the melody, the way it anchors the theft of Florida in 2000 in a murder that took place in 1901--that makes the tune hurt, filling it with sadness, loss, betrayal, defeat.

http://citypages.com/databank/24/1177/article11347.asp

[Greyskye]

3. Great stuff!

Thanks for the link!

[ShaneGR]

4. No problem.

[Skidmore]

7. What is this picture about? Did I miss something? n/t

[eleny]

8. It's a gov't body that went wild one day

But I can't remember what country it is. They got into a fight. It happened months ago.

on edit - i checked the Properties of the image and in the title it says it's the Japanese Diet.

[mandyky]

10. Japanese Parliment

If I remember right.

[VermontDem2004]

9. That video is new?

I seen that video about 5 months ago, in fact another DUer posted that video and I watched it.