April 12, 2012
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Standin' On Your Ground
George Zimmerman, the man who shot a kid for walking at night, shares a last name with Songwriter Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Thus, the following parody was gonna get written by somebody.How many hoodies must I see pass by
before one stops to burgle my pad?
And how can one tell if a lad's okay,
and just running to the store for his Dad?
Yes, how many kids walking outside at night
are really out to do something bad?
The answer, my friend doesn't matter in the end
When on my ground I do stand.
Just how young does a man have to be
to not be considered a threat?
And since when did having a lousy sense of style
make it right to shoot someone dead?
Yes, and what if your fear of a young black guy
is by sensationalist media fed?
My answer, my friend, is a bullet from my gun
I followed him and shot him with my gun.
Yes, and how many more will die needlessly
Before we fix this law finally?
How many more Mothers will have to see
their dead sons each night on TV?
Until it's changed, I feel perfectly free
to shoot you for looking cross-eyed at me
You can thank the NRA for this insanity,
now go out and kill someone legally.
Comments (14)
When my kids were 4 and 2 I got fed up with them squabbling, so I sat them down for a time-out and said, "Don't even look at each other cross-eyed." My daughter, being that age, automatically said, "But I want to look at him cross-eyed!"
I don't know that changing laws would make much of a difference to a situation like this. Stupid stuff happens in all circumstances.
@Roadkill_Spatula - A law that makes it okay to shoot a man who was not trying to hurt you or steal from you, that says that you can start a fight, then kill the guy when he gets the upper hand, will and has led to some tragic deaths already.
excellent work...I've been getting phone calls from the NRA lately. I think it was because my grandfather was a member and now they want me.
Hubby ordered a holster from the NRA and now we get ads from them! I would really rather not be associated with those so-and-sos. But, then, he doesn't want to be associated with the Skeptic Society and I order things from them. Anyway, it is a dangerous law and your poem/song is clever.
The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, of Charton Heston's big mouth: I'll give you my gun, when you pry it (my son) from my cold, dead hands.
i was just singing this song. your version is timely and appropriate.
This post went viral at RNL if you noticed. You know, the SYG law terminology even confounds Hess, and this is why I agree with @whyzat that it is a dangerous law as currently written. Oh, and ff course, I love your poem.
Um, are we meeting up later at the shooting range, then?
@Kellsbella - Yes, but I am tired of shooting at that range. What do you say, let's fire at the fridge for a change.
Makes me wish I'd thought of it first, which happens frequently here. I have some issues with the changing perspective verse-to-verse.
I'd probably go with:
The answer, my friend, is blowing you away
The answer is blowing you away.
@MelFamy - Haha. You so dry I didn't 'get' it at first.
What gets me is the death wish obviously enunciated by Romney when he pandered to the NRA a day or two ago. By which I mean, he got a FEW votes by pandering, but look how many he lost?
(Great poem, of course.)
@twoberry - And Romney looked as uncomfortable as fox in a kennel, didn't he? He looked like a man trying to be something he wasn't
Very nice!
Ah my little brother so young and impetuous (spontaneous). A true talent for sure.
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