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chycho's avatar

MGGA! Make Guillotines Great Again!

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Longtrail's avatar

🤣 I have my own version of MAGA. Made America Genocidal Again!🇺🇸🇮🇱

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Longtail, Biden and Trump have already accomplished MAGA (i.e. Make America GENOCIDAL Again).

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Longtrail's avatar

I wrote "Made", not Make. Read it again.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Simple pulsing reggae in a minor key (Gmin) will do the job nicely. As the repeat interlude, between verses, I'd use "Palantir princes won’t look so chipper when their melons meet the melon snipper" -- with a fat congested guitar sound aping the vocal melody and a high-voiced chorus behind shouting: "go forth and sing, ye castrati".

Already have an ascending melody & chord progression for those two lines.

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Bradley Lacke's avatar

we need to hear this asap

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Would be nice, but I've only given this 10 minutes at a fuzzy-brained 5:30 a.m. Will maybe put aside something else & work on it later. Great lyrics deserve some un-rushed attention. Will give it a shot.

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gypsy33's avatar

This is gonna chart worldwide 😁

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

A bit of a premature prediction, gyp dear, considering I’ve put very barebones music to only 4 lines of lyrics.

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gypsy33's avatar

I have faith in ya 😉

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Have got the basic chord structure in reggae syncopation, w/vocal melody for a complete verse with [synthesized] guitar accents..

Need to work out the bass line. Verse structure will work for all 4 verses

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Thank you, my dear.

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martin's avatar

follow up with Cm - Dm, for the last line of every verse, steal from 'sixteen tons'.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Something along those lines

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Robert Bruce's avatar

I like it in the Key of E. E A B7 a la Woody Guthrie. Keep it simple so everyone can sing along.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

To each his own. I tend not to do anything ala anyone else, but if I'm shooting for reggae & going to ape anyone, it'd be ala Bob Marley.

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Magic Girl's avatar

Do it, Vin! Those last two lines, well, the entire last verse, is PRICELESS.

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Martin C. Fredricks IV's avatar

Fabulous! Love it.

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Howard Switzer's avatar

Alright! I'm singing it in 8 bar blues, but at the end of the first verse I thought it needed a chorus so...Why am I singing the guillotine song

I know the killing has gone on for too long

Why do they do it when they know it’s wrong

That’s why I’m singing the guillotine song

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Henri Mellett's avatar

Wonderfully restrained understatement of what i'd like to do to the relevant uebermenschen, and how is it when i read " smugly smirk" the microbial face of Bizos with "uselessy malignant" twisted sneer flashes on the wincing screen of awareness?...as usual,gracious Caitlin, our lady of rage, thanks for that metrically tuned convulsion of outrage i'm sure the cosmos itself feels as its shakes its head in disappointment at the delayed arrival of the communist renaissance gnawing at the roots of the miscreant American Nazi dream...

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Landru's avatar

Thank you for summing up all of my thoughts so well. I love you friend.

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Mary W Maxwell's avatar

Henri, you call that RESTRAINED?

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Timothy Skeers's avatar

Wow, this sums up pretty much everything in a few poetic lines. Great work!

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Mark's avatar

"Luigi was an underachiever"

👌

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Magic Girl's avatar

I love that line the best. Just PUNCHES!

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Landru's avatar

I love you Caitlin and Tim! This is our NEW national anthem! Yes, we need to build more guillotines

: ) Make 2025, 1789 again : )

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Bradley Lacke's avatar

this is by far my favorite poem of yours

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ChatterX's avatar

Plutocracy, Nepotism, Oligarchy, Synarchy, Tribalism, Kleptocracy, Fasci...nah, DEMOCRACY !

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Judy Bancroft's avatar

Brilliant!!!! 👍

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Great words once again.

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Penelope Prill's avatar

Fucking MAGNIFICENT!!!!

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doug elford's avatar

A lesson from the FRENCH REVOLUTION ?

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Dad's avatar

Great job, expresses my sentiments exactly! And, IMHO, Luigi was an underachiever.

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Bud Sabiston's avatar

Awesome, your talent is a truth seeking .

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