This was uploaded to YouTube eight years ago. It was originally written by Irving Berlin in 1941 about Hitler. For reasons surpassing my understanding, the song “When That Man is Dead and Gone” is once again going viral in January 2026.
We already have a thread dedicated to Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis”. Anyone got any others?
I defer to Woody Guthrie.
This is a good one.
Speaking of, Guthrie himself wrote a song called ‘Old Man trump’ about Fred trump, but the lyrics, other than the local real estate reference, could just as well apply to his demon seed.
Here are a couple videos-- the first is Guthrie singing the song himself, but the sound quality is not great; the second is a cover medley of “I Ain’t Got No Home/Old Man Trump”:
