Sweet Baby Keynes?

VERSUS parodies are written by Marcy Shaffer, whose professional writing experience includes television, film, lyrics, verse and… musical parody. VERSUS is co-produced by Russ Meyer, a private equity veteran whose industry expertise includes financial services as well as entertainment. Shaffer is an attorney-cum-parodist (Roll over Stephan Pastis!) and her partner, Russ Meyer, received his MBA from Stanford University. Answers.com tell us that

John Maynard Keynes (pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/ "cains") (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics and considered by some to be the most influential economist of the 20th century.

If this is a (fair & balanced) satirical imitation of a signature song, so be it.

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"Raising Keynes"
By Marcy Shaffer
[Parody of the James Taylor song "Sweet Baby James"]

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BARACK'S BROUGHT BACK JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES.

THIS WHIZ FROM ILLINOIS.
WHO'S TAKEN THE REINS.
ECONOMY PONDERING VASTER DISASTER.
AUTONOMY WANDERING FROM ITS U.S. MASTER.
BUSH MAY BE GONE.
BUT HIS SWANSONG REMAINS.
OBAMA SAW TRAUMA IN SUPPLY-SIDER THEORIES.
THE JET-SETTERS BLESSED.
THE SWEAT OF THE REST.
THAT'S WHY, SATISFYING A SERIES OF QUERIES.
HIS QUEST FOUND A REASSESSED VET TO SUGGEST
HOW WE AVOID GETTING
DEPRESSED.

ENTER OBAMA'S MENTOR.
WALK THROUGH EACH THOUGHT HE EXPLAINS.
LIKE LUKE GOT YODA, WHO SHOWED A LOT, OR
HARRY POTTER SOUGHT DUMBLEDORE'S BRAINS:
BARACK'S TAUGHT BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES.

NOW OUR OLD INFRASTRUCTURE
IS WEAR-AND-TEAR BARE.
WE LEARN HIKES ON TURNPIKES
ARE POTHOLED WITH PERIL.
AND OUR GRID CAN'T BE BID
FOR WHAT WE SLID TO MERRILL.
OUR RAILWAYS ARE FRAIL WAYS.
THE LIST IS TOO LONG TO SOURCE.
WHILE THE STIMULUS GYMNASTS ARE, WELL, MELANCHOLICS.
IT'S GRIM, YOU LESSORS,
YOU LESSEES, ON EACH BOURSE.
BUT KEYNES WOULD SAY:
"BOLLOCKS! BECOME SHOPAHOLICS!"
BECAUSE GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS LIKE USING
THE FORCE.
OR BLENDING A POTION, OF COURSE.

SO ENTER OBAMA'S MENTOR.
WALK THROUGH EACH THOUGHT HE EXPLAINS.
LIKE LUKE GOT YODA, WHO SHOWED A LOT, OR
HARRY POTTER SOUGHT DUMBLEDORE'S BRAINS:
BARACK'S TAUGHT BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES.
BARACK'S BROUGHT BACK JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. ♥

[Gary Stockdale - lead vocal
Greg Hilfman - music director]

℗ © 2008 RMSWorks LLC. Lyrics © 2008 RMSWorks LLC.

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