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The Men Who Buy to Space

from Rust Belt Ballads by Emmett Doyle

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I wrote so many songs about the working class, I thought I'd be fair and give a shout out to the robber barons who do such fascinating things with our collective surplus value. I'm in favor of the billionaires racing to space; it's a pity about them coming back.

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D G D
High above the world there’s a billion dollar race
D A D
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
D G D
To see which robber baron will be first to buy to space
D A D
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
A
They’ve gone beyond electric cars,
A
there’s three more dicks among the stars
A D
They ought to be the first on Mars, it’s true
D G A
But when they reach the Hellas Basin, cut the line back to the station,
D A D
Let them stay on their vacation, too-ra-loo

Branson rode the blast-off of a silo worth of oil
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
To get a better picture of the world as it broils
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
Some malcontents might drive a wedge and asked what happened to the pledge
To rid us of the fuel that is our doom
Although it’s slow in bearing fruit, he’s got the issue by the root
He’ll do it by reducing it to fumes

Bezos had a vision as he floated in the stars
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
And he thanks all of the peasants who have paid for him this far
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
He has witnessed the solution to industrial pollution
And he’ll move all the production to the moon
But Amazonians United will appear there uninvited
To incite the lunar commune, too-ra-loo

Now Musk has got a blueprint for a special Martian vault
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
To build his Teslas somewhere that the union cannot salt
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
But since he’s heard that Mars is red, he’s packed the rocket full of lead
He’ll kill those commies all dead, white and blue
If he goes then we don’t mind, Let him work an asteroid mine
just leave the lithium behind, too-ra-loo

If the state took these men’s taxes like they rob from me and you
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
They could buy us each a house and still see the cosmos, too
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-loo
But since the space race privatized, we’ve been forced to economize,
A rocket to the sun, we cannot do
If they want to be an astronaut, the only flight plan that we’ve got
Is gelignite propulsion, too-ra-loo

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from Rust Belt Ballads, released September 1, 2023

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Emmett Doyle Minneapolis, Minnesota

Emmett is a working class rebel musician- a union carpenter, former river deckhand, raised on a farm in central Minnesota. With American country and blues and Irish traditional roots, he keeps the Long Memory going while singing about today's struggles. His work is rooted in social movements he's an active part of, from labor to defending the earth to fighting hate. ... more

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