Sipsey Street Irregulars: Anthem

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Anthem

"I Am America."

And they ain't.

At present -- 23:20 CDT -- this has less than 70,000 hits on YouTube. This needs to go viral.

I Am America.

by Krista Branch.

Pay no attention to the people in the street,
crying out for accountability.
Make a joke of what we believe.
Say we don't matter 'cause you disagree.
Pretend you're kings, sit on your throne.
Look down your nose at the peasants below.
I've got some news; we're taking names.
We're waiting now for the judgment day.

I Am America, one voice united we stand.
I Am America, one hope to heal our land.
There is still work that must be done.
I will not rest until we've won.
I Am America.

You preach your tolerance but lecture me.
Is there no end to your own hypocrisy?
Your god is power, you have no shame.
Your only interest is political gain.
You hide your eyes and refuse to listen.
You play your games and abuse the system.
You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning.
I've got a feeling that the tide is turning.

I Am America, one voice united we stand.
I Am America, one hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight.
I will not fade into the night.
I Am America.

You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning.
I've got a feeling that the tide is turning!

I Am America, one voice united we stand.
I Am America, one hope to heal our land.
I Am America, one voice united we stand.
I Am America, one hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight.
I will not fade into the night.
I Am America.

In the video, a little girl holds up a sign with a reference to 2 Chronicles, Chapter 7, Verse 14:

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

15 comments:

Dedicated_Dad said...: Great tune!

And the young Lady's rather easy on the eyes (and ears) as well!

DD; July 7, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Dennis308 said...: I don´t think she will be getting an invitation from the Obuma´s to sing at the White House. No matter how good she sings,she is now an enemey of the State. Just ask Mark Potuk.

Dennis
III
Texas; July 7, 2010 at 11:47 PM
John Robert Mallernee, KB3KWS, in Vernal, Utah said...: Mike:

I was unaware of this song.

Thanks to you, I embedded the video on my own personal blog, along with the lyrics and a photograph of Krista Branch, with links to her official web site and contact form.

The URL for my blog is:

http://writesong.blogspot.com/

You might want to look at it.

You'll notice I make my fonts larger, and contrast them with colors, so they're easier to read (in my opinion).

I assume your blog works the same way mine does, so if you want to resize the video to fit properly on your own blog, here's how you do it:

First, you'll have to remove the video that you presently have embedded.

Then, you copy the original embedding code, and paste it, just as you did before.

Change the size numbers from "640" and "385" to "425" and "344".

Those numbers appear near the beginning of the code, and also near the end of the code, so change them in both places.

That's all there is to it!

Thank you.; July 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM
Ahab said...: Absolutely stirring and astonishing. Went to "You Tube," copied the URL and sent it out as a hyperlink to my circle of 50+ which should be read first thing this am. Ought to help on making that video go viral.; July 8, 2010 at 3:33 AM
Dutchman6 said...: JRM: Thanks. Fixed.; July 8, 2010 at 5:34 AM
M. Bryant said...: Maybe the paratroopers who did that lady gaga video will do this one next

Michael in MS
III; July 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM
Dakota said...: Outstanding!! Absolutely great lyrics, mixed with pictures of a frustrated America trying to get America to listen.

The timing is great, she'll be on Hannity, and Beck both I bet. This will send the song into orbit.; July 8, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Toaster 802 said...: Thanks for the heads up on Krista. I posted the video over at my site also. Let's give this good woman the forum she needs to spread the good word!; July 8, 2010 at 9:59 AM
doubletrouble said...: Posted on mine as well... with acknowledgment, of course.

wf: "hiest"; July 8, 2010 at 11:33 AM
Oakenheart said...: Love it.

Usual bullshit noises from the usual place tho - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/07/krista-branch-i-am-americ_n_638596.html; July 8, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Pat H. said...: Way better than that insipid paean to the US government,neocons, and the war party by Lee Greenwood, more accurate too.; July 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Anonymous said...: BTW, 3% of 300 million is 9 million; July 8, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Want to get annoyed? Read the reviews on this song in itunes. The other side just can't leave well enough alone. Then again, there's no pulling punches in war.; July 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Don Lloyd said...: Taxes on income are NOT the way to finance government! And neither are VAT or consumption taxes. There is a BETTER way! Individual retirement accounts can eliminate ALL state, federal, employment, and corporate income taxes, give individuals more retirement money than Social Security
http://www.NoTaxUntilDeath.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134588556570964

The Galveston Plan: This is what you could get with Personalized Social Security.
Congress changed the law in 1983 to prohibit what Galveston County did in 1980.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba514; July 10, 2010 at 6:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Great tune!

However, we represent a lot more than 3% of this country!; July 12, 2010 at 6:26 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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