# Post-election venting through song lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372 "2016-11-10T17:01:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372/1 "2016-11-10T17:01:34Z")

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Adapting a Blue Oyster Cult favorite:

\*History shows again and again  
How voters point up the folly of Dems…

Hillzilla!\*

And from the Traveling Wilburys:

_Been beat up and battered 'round  
Been sent up, and we’ve been shot down  
You’re the worst thing that we’ve ever found  
Handle U.S. with care  
Reputation’s unchangeable  
Situation’s intolerable  
Baby, you’re deplorable  
Handle U.S. with care_

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372/2 "2016-11-10T18:03:57Z")

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Didn’t require any manipulation on my part to have Susan Werner’s “[My Strange Nation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1RL8ktnPZs)” on my mind yesterday…

> [@](#):
>
> But my Strange Nation, will surely come around  
> For you cannot hold us down for long  
> We’ll sputter and we’ll cough, and throw the despots off  
> And recover the soul that makes us strong  
> And my frustration is just a product of  
> My strange but loyal love for this land:
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> For its mountains and its lakes; tornadoes and earthquakes  
> For its poets and pioneers; for its fetishes and fears  
> For its freedom of dissent; for its greasy government  
> And I will not change this stance  
> I will not “move to France”.  
> I will always hold out one more chance  
> For my Strange Nation…  
> America.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372/3 "2016-11-10T19:56:38Z")

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How about every Rage Against the Machine song…ever?  
Particularly the one with the guy holding the Trump for President sign.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-election-venting-through-song-lyrics/771372/4 "2016-11-10T21:24:25Z")

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And inevitably:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/f-pT-w7qFl4/maxresdefault.jpg "Bonzo Dog Band - No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pT-w7qFl4)