Trump’s invasion of D.C. costs over $1 million a day. What could that fund instead?bSimply housing people without homes would be less expensive.
President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of restoring security in the nation’s capital — despite D.C.’s crime rate being at a 30-year low.
Trump hasn’t just complained about alleged crime in the district — he’s placed a target on people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Claiming that we’re “getting rid of the slums,” Trump has called on troops and police to forcibly remove unhoused people from the city. (Source: Ohio Capital Journal – Hannah Homestead)
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
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LYRICS by Freedom Toast
This ain’t no golf course
It ain’t a failed casino, either
This is Washington, DC
All I wanna do is see Trump gone before I die
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It’s apropos of nothing, he says he’s my Uncle Sam
I’m sure he’s Sam or Gavin or Joe or Barack
He’s not so ugly to me
And I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life
We watch them drinking Kool-Aid at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces the Capitol
The good people of America
Hope Republicans all resign on their lunch break
Hoping and voting as best they can in the election
They drive their beat up EVs and hybrids
Back to the pharmacies, the health food stores too
Well, they’re something like Kamala and me
‘Cause all I want to do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I want to do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I want to do is see Trump gone
Being led off in cuffs by the California National Guard
I like to hear good news early in the mornin’
And Sam likes to hear about seats flipped to Blue from Red
He reads about them at the bar
Then he writes down every name in the Republican Senate
Lights and watches them burn down to his thin fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out.
He watches them tell lies on TV from the Senate floor
And a Latino couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender smiles and returns his paper
But all I want to do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I want to do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I want to do is see Trump gone
Being led off in cuffs by the California National Guard
Otherwise, D.C. is ours,
Some day the House and Supreme Court, too
Pollution and corruption coming from the dirty pols
With them, we are through!
And all I wanna do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have Trump gone
I got a feeling, our fight has just begun
All I wanna do is have Trump gone
I gotta tell you, I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is see Trump gone
Being led off in cuffs by the California National Guard
Being led off in cuffs by the California National Guard
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG
“All I Wanna Do” is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow. It was written by Crow, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, and Kevin Gilbert, with lyrics adapted from Wyn Cooper’s 1987 poem “Fun”. Released in July 1994 by A&M Records, it was Crow’s breakthrough hit from her 1993 debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club. The song is Crow’s biggest US hit, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks from October 8 to November 12, 1994 (it was kept from No. 1 by Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You”), and it also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was the winner of the 1995 Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for Song of the Year.
In addition to its US success, “All I Wanna Do” peaked at number one in Australia for one week and in Canada for four weeks, also topping the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in the latter country. In New Zealand and the United Kingdom, it peaked at number four, and in Europe, it reached the top 10 in Austria, Flanders, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The accompanying music video was directed by David Hogan and Roman Coppola and won an award at the 1994 Billboard Music Video Awards. Crow performed the song on her live album Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park.
The lyrics of the song are based on the poem “Fun” by Wyn Cooper. Cooper was inspired to write the poem by a conversation at a bar with a friend and occasional writer, Bill Ripley, in which he said “All I want is to have a little fun before I die”, which became the first line of the poem. In a 1994 interview, Cooper said: “The poem isn’t really about him. Or me. They’re different people. They’re people you can sort of see as … well … objective correlatives. Symbols of people like us, or what we could have been, or what we would have become if we continued to drink and do nothing with our lives.”
Toad Hall Studio, where the song was recorded, was next door to the Pasadena Playhouse. Crow’s producer (Bottrell) discovered Cooper’s poetry book The Country of Here Below in a nearby used bookstore in Pasadena, California. Crow had written a song called “I Still Love You” but was unhappy with its lyrics; she used its melody and adapted the poem for her lyrics to “All I Wanna Do”.
The song earned Cooper considerable royalties and helped to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints. After the song became popular, Ripley brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cooper for some of the song’s royalties, which ended their friendship.
The opening spoken line, “This ain’t no disco”, is a reference to the song “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads.
In 1997, after attending a performance by Crow at the Rosemont Theatre in Illinois, veteran Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot called the song “a rewrite of Stealers Wheel’s ‘Stuck in the Middle with You'”.