Some appreciation has been coming in for sharing the words before this Friday’s show. So here’s another piece we’ll be performing at Hot Times. (This Friday, Sept 9, 6:45. Parsons and Main.) It’s based on Gil Scttt-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”. We took off from that with our “The Repression Will Not Be Televised”. Then NOLA Resistance did “The Resistance Will Not Be Televised”. Now we’ve got:
The Counter-Revolution WILL Be Televised
C#7
Racists will speak openly of “Replacement Theory”
While they gang-rape critical race theory
Or any race theory except the master race
All on cable TV.
Our Quislings will compliment our enemies
Admire neat gardens and on time trains
dungeons and interrogation techniques
Talk talk talking on the talk talk talk shows
The counter-revolution will be televised.
(Guitar solo…)
E7
Politicians will foment sedition and flirt with treason
They will say it in front of morning cameras
and deny it in the afternoon.
The ex-president will exhort re-insurrection.
You will watch MAGA troopers Storm the Capitol
You will wait for the po-po to show up
And see them not.
The counter-revolution will be televised.
(Bass solo…)
G7
You will watch Tucker Carlson pollute the wires
And Josh Hawley grandly stand against abortion
And against helping babies against women
Against truth and for guns and dirty money
And a young fascist listens and buys a gun.
He will stream-massacre Black people because he hates Jews.
The lone wolf will become a stream-pack of massacres
The counter-revolution will be televised.
(Drum solo)
B
You will watch C-SPAN in horror
As McConnell and McCarthy manipulate and hypocritize for power over all and
Attempt another legislative coup.
And after all this every network will report
The judge who says an ex-president is above the law.
The counter-revolution will be televised.
(Guitar solo…)
C#7
outside
the Proud Fascist Boys and the White Power Oath Keepers and the Boogalosers
Will Attempt another violent coup
The counter-revolution will be televised.
A packed Supreme Court will not be televised
But will legitimize the illegitimate
And then overturn Obergfell and Brown gleefully
And gleefully
Their pundits will rail across the ether
The counter-revolution will be televised.
