Most of you know a centuries-old round called "Hey Ho Nobody
Home", right? Well a rhythmic similarity to something I started
hearing on television a lot got me playing around with it in my
head, and I've finally come up with a second and third line that
I like for what I had in mind ...
(At left: links to a typical way of notating a round -- as
one line of music with the points marked at which the second and
third voices join in -- and an each-voice-on-its-own-staff
version of the same thing, for folks who prefer having it all
explicit and page-filling. They're on TwitPic, so you'll need
to find the "view full size" button on the hover menu when you
get there.)
Slightly different from what's in those linked images of sheet
music (because a refinement occurred to me while I was typing
this here journal entry):
We are the ninety-nine percent
No vast fortunes; our money all gets spent
Our shopping is what will drive
job-creation
We are the ninety-nine
percent ...
If anybody other than myself likes this enough to actually
sing it, I figure the 'folk process' will have the wording
continue to shift. As long as the words still closely resemble
what I wrote, I'd appreciate being given credit for them, but
beyond that I'm not interested in putting a leash on it --
thus the Creative Commons license. Either its of some value
to the Occupy movement, in which case it's my gift to them ...
or it doesn't, in which case it's probably not really
interesting to anybody else either.
(This should go without saying, but hey, it's the Internet,
so ... Note that the economic assertion in the lyric is not a
nuanced, carefuly argued examination of the economics or
explanation of an ideological position; it's a bumper-sticker-sized
condensation of a relevant idea into a space too small for
nuance, "yes, but", or a list of assumptions. I think I could
insert footnotes into a ballad[1],
but there's not that much room in a round. Three lines make a
slogan, not a scholarly essay.)
[1] The distinction between 'could' and 'should'
probably having some importance there.