The Bum Won
Brat’s victory last night made me think of this song from the musical “Fiorello.” I saw it as a child and it was one of my favorites, although it’s hardly ever performed today. It has several really clever songs about politics, including this one that the New York Republican Party guys sing after Fiorello wins a local victory running as a reform candidate against the Democratic Tammany Hall machine candidate.
They never in their wildest dreams expected him to win:
The lyrics are awfully good:
Even without our help, look at the way he won
Everyone sold him short.
(“You think they’ll ask for a recount?”)
We got a winner, but what good is that to us,
Not if he doesn’t feel grateful for our support?
(“You mean no patronage, huh, Ben?”)I gotta talk to him.
Someone, pinch me, maybe this is just a beautiful dream
I’m in a bad state of shock.
I’d like to know just how the hell it happened
What we did right
Fellas, the whole thing is cock-eyed…
If you liked that one, you may like two more from the show. They hold up very well after all these years.
The first one’s about the nominating process in a lopsided district where the pols think whomever they nominate will inevitably lose:
And the second is about political corruption on trial:
all irrelevent as the border is now being inundated with people who are all claiming that they get citizenship if they get over the border… shelters are deteriorating, and obama is basically saying… throw them back, i dare you…
and the nation either does, or it collapses under the influx
at what point do they start shooting children at the border?
Ahhh, the good ole days when Broadway did more than hashtag.
waitforit:
“Fiorello” distinguished itself by being one of only eight musicals that have ever won a Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Hilary’s last interview need a chorus of “AS Little Tin Box” in the background.