Monday, August 01, 2016
Prop. 64 ditty
I tweaked the lyrics to a folk tune on behalf of California ballot proposition 64 (to end state laws banning marijuana):
#CA64 (to the tune of Frere Jacques):
California Marijuana in a store? Banned no more?
End the prohibition; Yes on proposition 64. 64.
Here are my original lyrics. (Songs can evolve like everything else.)
#CA64 (to the tune of Frere Jacques):
Marijuana, California, 64. 64.
Back the proposition, so no prohibition
anymore. Anymore.
At 130 characters (including title and credit), the entire song is tweetable. Of course, it was inspired by the playground song I frequently heard as a child:
Marijuana, Marijuana, LSD, LSD.
Scientists make it; teachers take it;
Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
Many variations exist; this is the one I remember. This seems to be a true folk song and an example of cultural evolution—heard and then passed on, often with modifications—so that I cannot find a reliable claim of lyric authorship.
