I Dreamed I Saw Steve Moore

Joe Hill ashes envelope, November 1916, via The Labor Martyrs Project.

Our friend Boswood aka Bethesda 1971 has produced a parody of "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill"* on the subject of Stephen Moore, who is sort of to Trump and economics what Andrey Zhdanov was to Stalin and arts criticism, and to whom Trump dedicated a recent tweet:

2018 is being called “THE YEAR OF THE WORKER” by Steve Moore, co-author of “Trumponomics.” It was indeed a great year for the American Worker with the “best job market in 50 years, and the lowest unemployment rate ever for blacks and Hispanics and all workers. Big wage gains.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2018

I admired it after he posted it at Kos yesterday (if you like it go rec him there!), and he kindly invited me to reproduce it here, so here goes:

The Ballad of Steve Moore

by Bethesda 1971

I dreamed I saw Steve Moore last night
On MSNBC
But Steve you are a right wing hack
“Oh that I am said he
Oh that I am said he.”

You hate the workers don’t you Steve
Their wages are too high
Says Steve “I have a goal in life.
The unions all must die.
The unions all must die.”

And sitting there on my TV
And looking like a jerk
He says “my way to kill them
Is by passing right to work.
By passing right to work.”

From strategists to lobbyists
Through every open door
Where Plutocrats rake in their cash,
It’s there you find Steve Moore.
It’s there you find Steve Moore.

I dreamed I saw Steve Moore last night
On MSNBC
But Steve you are a right wing hack
“Oh that I am said he
Oh that I am said he.”

* I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night is a song by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson. Joe Hill was a union organizer for the IWW (Wobblies) [and poet—ed.]. He was framed for a murder in Utah and executed by firing squad in 1915. “His body was sent to Chicago where up to 30,000 people attended the funeral. Joe was cremated and his ashes divided into 600 envelopes that were sent to IWW branches across the globe.” Joan Baez sang  I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night” at Woodstock. Here it is: