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Song Parodies -> "ACORN Is Back!"

Original Song Title:

"Pore Jud Is Daid (Poor Judd Is Dead)"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Cast of Oklahoma

Parody Song Title:

"ACORN Is Back!"

Parody Written by:

Old Man Ribber

The Lyrics

How I wish my seventh installment of "Occupy Oklahoma" were not about this subject! Occupy Wall Street is receiving financial support and organizing help from a group called New York Communities for Change (N.Y.C.C.). This wholesomely-named organization is in fact the former New York office of the discredited ACORN! They are operating from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, led by New York ACORN's former director Jon Kest and his staff, and are reportedly even using the old ACORN stationery for correspondence. N.Y.C.C. is using the old ACORN tactics...allegedly bringing in scores of paid former ACORN affiliates from out of state to join the protests, using funds collected for N.Y.C.C.'s program to test schools for toxins to support Occupy Wall Street, and paying people $10 an hour to swell the crowd. ANYWAY...for this parody, I used the original cast recording, which does not have the dialogue and recitative. Also the first lines of verses four and five have an extra syllable. The Halloween moral of this subject is simple..."Don't ever forget to drive the stake through the vampire's heart!". ;D




ACORN is back! They're here to attack!
We thought that such a thing could never be.
Although they changed their name
Their agenda's still the same.
They have renamed themselves N.Y.C.C.

ACORN's returned! Has nobody learned?
They're working from the same old office suite! (Ain't that neat?)
They're out there raising dough
And they're helping run the show
For "leaderless" mob Occupy Wall Street. (1)

ACORN's alive! I'm not talking jive.
Ex-ACORN boss Jon Kest is there to see. (Yes, that's he!)
They're paying people cash
That they raised and from a stash
They claimed was to test schools for P.C.B.

ACORN Point Two! We hoped that they were through,
But guess who loves this? Plouffe and Axelrod! (Rod.)(2)
Their crimes and dirty tricks
Are still matchless politics.
Obama's still their one and only god. (Gawd!!)

ACORN's reborn! Absolved of all the scorn!
Remember Oh-Eight and what this denotes.
Although they've changed their face
All their plans are still in place:
Intimidation, threats, illegal votes!

ACORN! Reborn!



(1) Occupy Wall Street (Atlanta, Oakland, Never-Neverland, ad nauseum) claims to be a true movement without leaders. (2) The two Davids...Plouffe and Axelrod...are the top men in the Obama re-election effort. All other references are addressed in the introduction. In the original cast recording, the role of Judd Fry was played by Howard DaSilva, a magnificent actor how was blacklisted in the fifties. During this time, he astutely aquired the stage production rights for the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Late in life, he appeared as Benjamin Franklin in the film version of "1776". ;D

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Rob Arndt - October 28, 2011 - Report this comment
Well done-555!!! We have an Occupy Sacramento here but unlike other cities there is no cohesion and no real complaint, except for a permanent site for the homeless. We've had some arrests but nothing is really going on politically, so I've avoided the topic. I have a OWS fragment that might get posted, but that's it...
Porfle Popnecker - October 28, 2011 - Report this comment
I really like your showtune parodies.
Barry J. Mitchel - October 28, 2011 - Report this comment
Thanks for exposing the NYCC; an acorn waits for the right time to sprout.

The daisies in Z park will give up and lose their spark,
Because these duds have sundered peaceful ground.
Poor buds, poor buds!
John Jenkins - October 30, 2011 - Report this comment
It will be interesting to see if this group or its leaders get prosecuted for diverting funds from schools to support the OWS festivities. Well done, OMR.

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