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Trump Launches Campaign with Anti-American Theme Song

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 9:19

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Business tycoon Donald Trump today in New York announced his campaign for president, but in a sign that his staff may not yet be in prime shape to wage a presidential campaign, he used as his theme song Neil Young’s anti-American screed, “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

While Trump surely liked the sentiment of the title, which is also the catchy chorus line, Young clearly means it as irony. His 1989 Bush I – era song includes descriptions of a decrepitude and injustice contrasted with the sarcastic “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.”

Here are the lyrics:

“Rockin’ In The Free World”

There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign
on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’
we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

Here’s Neil performing the song on SNL. Doesn’t look like he’s celebrating anything.