19 August 2019 — 2103 mdt
Greenland & the Greenback Dollar — a hoot for Donny
The Kingston Trio made Hoyt Axton’s Greenback Dollar famous (so famous that apparently all performances by the Trio and Hoyt can be played only on YouTube). It’s a good choice for a musical comment on the man in the White House’s proposal to Denmark to exchange Greenland for greenbacks.
Greenland & the Greenback Dollar
Some people say I’m a no-countOthers say I’m no goodBut I’m just a natural born real estate manDoin’ what I think I should, oh yeahDoin’ what I think I should
And I don’t give a damn about a Greenback a-dollarSpend it fast as I canOn a boondoggle wall, and Greenland island,Defying the law of the land, Congress,Defying the law of the land.
When I was a little babyDaddy Fred said, “Hey sonLie when you must, in mendacity we trust,Grow up to be a real estate man, mein boy,Grow up to be a real estate man.
And I don’t give a damn about a Greenback a-dollarSpend it fast as I canOn a boondoggle wall, and Greenland island,Defying the law of the land, Congress,Defying the law of the land.
Now that I Tweet from the White House,Insulting both peasants and kings,I’ve learned that a lie will be truth by and by,‘less a rat in the jailhouse sings, hoo boy,‘less a rat in the jailhouse sings.
Some people say I’m a no-countOthers say I’m no goodBut I’m just a natural born real estate manDoin’ what I think I should, oh yeahDoin’ what I think I should
And I don’t give a damn about a Greenback a-dollarSpend it fast as I canOn a boondoggle wall, and Greenland island,Defying the law of the land, Congress,Defying the law of the landDefying the law of the land, Congress,Defying the law of the land.