What Happened?
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US was just a colony
Ruled by king n aristocracy
Was to become democracy
So what exactly happened?
We no longer need a king!
Across 1/3 those words would ring
1/3 would still want that thing
So what exactly happened?
They had a war, a big great show,
And old king George they would throw
Him out! And Nobles? Would not go
What exactly happened?
For a time the landlords got the votes,
Nay for commoners renting their abodes,
Money made more
The poor stayed poor
So what happened
Rip Van Winkle,
brushing sleep from his eye,
Returned to the tavern;
His liver’d run dry
Raising his glass
In a grand toast
“Hail King George!”
Is what he spoke
“President George!!!”
Roared the room
Straight on his ass
Van Winkle would zoom
Through revolution and aftermath
The man firmly slept
To find it out now
The man nearly wept
“And that’s exactly what happened…pretty much” - Pinky Dinky Doo
Comments
I’ve long felt we shouldn’t have kept the aristocracy, old money decries new money’s innovations, that new money now quite old. I’d read the one who placed the right to property later regretted taking influence there from old English thinkers…if only personal was the word before, alluding that massive control of wealth should not rest with one, but hey, they forgot to ask me. Tsk tsk.
But Rip Van Winkle is a true historical character (in my mind), the greatest way to demonstrate civil disobedience to war! Uh…well, in my mind anyway