TALKING NPR BLUES
U. Utah Phillips, 2000 


http://www.utahphillips.org/talkingnprblues.html


(spoken in time) 

 I turned on my radio… spun the dial
 Thought I'd listen to some news for a while
 I grabbed the knob, spun it around, 
 Got NPR… here's what I found… 

 Real news? Hardly a trace
 Just one damn marathon market place
 The Nasdaq's up, the Dow's in the cellar
 And NPR sold out to Rockefeller

 Hostile take over… Real hostile.

 Well I hear about all the anti trust
 And all the day traders who bit the dust
 Mergers, buyouts and acquisitions
 Low down crooks in high positions

 Wheelers, dealers, and CEO's
 Fired and paid off through the nose
 Buying yachts and fancy homes
 With the bail out money from the savings and loans

 And I get pissed… Off that is.

 It's dot com this and dot com that
 The underwriters are getting fat
 On airwaves stole from you and me
 By a bunch of thieves called the FCC 

 They don't give a damn what we want and need
 They've all caved in to corporate greed
 And sold us out to the ruling class
 Well the whole damn bunch can kiss my… …Dot Com!

 This is a family show folks
 The FCC says watch your language
 English
 What's yours?

 I got tired of being treated like a veg
 So I called up the station and canceled my pledge
 In a mighty act of liberation
 Sent the money off to my community station

 I said "I love you"

 But if you blow it
 I'll sure as hell let you know it
 I'll knock the radio off the shelf
 Buy a transmitter and do it myself

 Whitebeard the Pirate

 This is radio station H O B O
 Broadcasting on a vagrancy of 60 to 90 days
 Signing off
 For now.