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Quick Dropkick: Some friendly advice for all Democratic candidates who want to make class division, tax relief for the wealthiest, etc. part of your mantra. Forget the corny campaign themes; remember how ridiculous Mike Dukakis looked with a Neil Diamond song greeting him when "Fortunate Son" would have been right? Here's offering the right theme this time, the Dropkick Murphy's "Worker's Song (Handful of Dirt)" from "Blackout," one of the three to five best albums of 2003:
This one's for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain, to earn your pay For centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines We've often been told to keep up with the times For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job And with slide rule and stopwatch, our pride they have robbed
(chorus) We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie in the sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war Who's given the gun and then pushed to the fore And expected to die for the land of our birth Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth And all of these things the worker has done From tilling the fields to carrying the gun We've been yoked to the plow since time first began And always expected to carry the can.
(chorus) We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie in the sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
And if they play it live when you're looking for the younger demographics, the first time you watch them you'll know what it was like when we first saw The Who at The Boston Tea Party.
-Peter Gammons
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