It's Tricky Dicky From Yorba Linda....

[JohnnyRingo]

Thank You, Country Joe & the Fish.
Sung as a rag:

Late last night I was watchin' the tube
Wen I saw the most incredible thing
They built a new mechanical man
Looked just like a human being.
I started to become terrified,
Good God it was makin' me sick
And then I began to realize
It was no one but Tricky Dick.

Yes, it was Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
He walks and he talks, he smiles, he frowns,
He does what a human can,
It was Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda,
The genuine plastic man.

There is no can't in American
Or so we once could say
But now our boys won't fight no more
To bring us victory.
Where are the mountain majesties
Above the fruited plains ?
Who will come to lead us
In our hour of pain ?

Why it's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
It's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
He walks and he talks, he smiles, he frowns,
He does what a human can,
He's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda,
The genuine plastic man, hey!

Oh my God, it's terrible
Here in the U.S.A.
The water's polluted, the economy's crashing
And can someone save the day ?
The war keeps going on and on
And the kids won't respect the cops,
It's even said that God is dead,
When will it ever stop ?

Hey, it's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
He walks, he talks, he smiles, he frowns,
He does what a human can,
He's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda,
The genuine plastic man.

And across the garbaged highways
From the oil-drenched plains
Now we'll see a victory,
America shall rise again.
Pass the word that the buffalo heard
To the home of the free and the brave,
He's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.

Well, it's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda
Hip hip hip hurrah.
He walks, he talks, he smiles, he frowns,
He does what a human can,
He's Tricky Dicky from Yorba Linda,
The genuine plastic man, oh yeah,
He's the genuine plastic man, oh yeah,
He's the genuine plastic man.


Free Some Day
Oh brothers and sisters come on and join the army
We've got to help each other throw away our chains.
Come on and make revolution — join the people's army
If we stand together we'll all be free some day.
We'll be free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

We'll be free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

I can see the sun a-risin' on a brand new morning
I can hear voices singin' in a victory song, yeah!
I can see the people's army marchin' on to glory
If we stand together you know it won't be long

We'll be free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Oh, brothers and sisters, come on and join the army
We've got to help each other throw away our chains.
Come on and make revolution — join the people's army,
If we stand together we'll all be free some day.
Hey, talkin' 'bout

Free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

We'll be free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

I can see the sun a-risin' on a brand new morning
I can hear voices singin' a victory song, yeah!
I can see the people's army, oh, marchin' on to glory,
If we stand together you know it won't be long.

And we'll be free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Free some day
Free the sisters
Free some day
Free the brothers
Free some day
Free the children
We'll all be free some day.

Just as prescient today as it was then.



I went to the local tonight, and this song was playing on the way home. I was behind a Jeep that had a license plate frame that read: "follow me to Jamboree In The Hills". I stuck my head out the window and kept yelling: "are we there yet?!".

[Kablooie]

1. Most of my high school friends were from Yorba Linda.

I was from Fullerton, another infamous place nowadays.

(a friend's dad painted the Nixon birthplace house sign)