Yankee Doodle Dandy – Moving Forward
Posted by Barry Pittard on December 26, 2012
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An image, much-used in finance, government and media, which depicts the perilous position of the United States is: ‘the fiscal cliff”. If, in the next weeks, the USA fails to arrest its great fiscal crisis, and falls over the brink, the repercussions will shake the world. There will be brinks all over the place.
A campaign slogan in the recent USA election was: ‘Move forward’. One might have thought that, perched on the brink of a chasm, moving forward is a somewhat chancey direction.
Crises of this magnitude, and greater, Sathya Sai Baba foretold he would solve before he died. He himself went over the brink that he dug for himself and many others. Millions of followers – though dwindling in number since our decade or more of international exposure – still blindly cling to the notion that he will save the world.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy. Barry Pittard. 26 November 2012
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Is not so dandy now
Once he sossed you don’t put your trusty
Hoss before the plow
But that was such a long time ago
Or it seems such a long time ago
But the reins they slip, slip out of his hands
As he cries ‘Help, help!’ to an old foe-friend
Says: I gotta borra your Shanghai dollar
I didn’t save, I need a pittance to spend
I need a Shanghai dollar for a trusty lend
Shanghai you are my dandy friend
In thee we trust, on thee we depend
Shanghai, Shanghai – A-men, A-men
Poor –
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Is not so dandy now
Is not so fine, is not so dandy
Dandy’s not so dandy now
As he was such a long time ago, oh
Or it seems such a long time ago
As he heads for the edge of a dizzy bluff
He hollers: Move forward! But his hoss says: Whoah!
Oh oh oh oh
Says: I got horse-sense, but you got none!
Is it over the brink of the cliff you’d go?
An abyss like this is a long way to go
And you might fall sick if you fall down below
You gotta stop-look-’n,-listen when your horse says: Whoah!
Or it’s over the brink you’ll go, oh, oh ….
Oh, oh, oh, oh …..
Poor -
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Is not so dandy now
Is not so fine, is not so dandy
Dandy’s not so dandy now
As he was such a long time ago – oh
Or it seems such a long time ago
And a fiscal cliff is a dismal cliff
That has a long, long way to go, oh, oh
Oh, no no no, Oh, oh oh oh ….
An abyss like this is a long way to go
And you might fall sick if you fall down below
You gotta stop-look-’n,-listen when your horse says: Whoah!
Or it’s over the brink you’ll go, oh, oh ….
Oh, oh oh oh
O-over the brink
You’ll go, go, go …..
When it’s far too late
To say: Whoah! Oh oh …
Oh -
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Is not so dandy now
Once he sossed you don’t put your trusty
Hoss before the plow
But that was such a long time ago
Or it seems such a long time ago
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