We’ve posted repeatedly about the flood of pop songs being written about the recession, including this one, “Hey, Paul Krugman,” by Jonathan Mann, who writes a song a day and posts it (and an accompanying video) on his website:
In the original post about the Krugman song, I asked why no one had yet written a song in defense of Tim Geithner.
And then … voila! A 23-year-old Canadian songwriter who calls himself PencilsGetTheCar answered the call with “The Treasury Secretary Song.” Sample lyrics:
Timothy, Timothy, Treasury Secretary
Knows what to do when it comes to dough.
Geithner, Geithner drinks his coffee with whitener
Probably, but I don’t know.
Now even better, the original song-a-day man, Jonathan Mann, has agreed to take a request: he’ll write a song about whatever you want. Leave your suggestions below. It doesn’t have to be about the recession — just make it clever, entertaining, wise, witty, etc. Jonathan (maybe with our input) will pick the best suggestion — and the winning suggester will get a piece of Freakonomics schwag. And, of course, a song. We will, of course, post the song here once it’s recorded.
Good luck.
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I’d love to hear a song on what it means for our future that only rich people run for political office on a national scale. Why is it that only wealthy people run for poitical office? Have we seen any political candidates recently on a national scale that weren’t very wealthy?
The GOP’s bubble burst
Levitt’s horse racing picks.
Colin Powel the closet Democrat…
Blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated hovercraft.
It’s nice to see a Canadianism. “Whitener” is a very common term for a powdery substitute for milk/cream to use in coffee. I think in the States the common term is “non-dairy creamer”?
Write a song about the pain of writing a song every single day!
How about a little ditty about Continental pilot pension/fake divorce scam. It could be called the Pilot Pension Two-Step.