Kazoo Hero

My inspiration for “Are you Lauding and Applauding Biden’s Horde” is the 1952 Gospel classic: “Are You Walkin’ and A-Talkin’ with the Lord. Hank Williams’ song urges us to take a moment and reflect on our path through life and the purpose behind our actions. Similarly, my parody questions the wisdom of a disastrous Open Border Policy that is dividing the country along ideological lines while adding immensely to an unsustainable $34 Trillion National Debt.

My inspiration for “Goodbye Joe” is Hank Williams’ classic 1952 song, “Jambalaya.” Imagine, if you will, that Crooked Joe Biden, America’s wannabe dictator, is having big fun, not On the Bayou, but In the Gulag.

Leonard Cohen wrote at least eighty verses over a 5-year stretch to his iconic song, “Hallelujah”, before selecting the four verses released on his “Various Positions” album in 1984. Ten years later, Jeff Buckley chose five of those verses to record what may well be the best cover of Cohen’s classic. In 2007, Kelly Mooney’s parish priest inspired her to write five new verses that are befitting the Christian celebration of Easter. The following is my cover of “Hallelujah” with Mooney’s lyrics.

In 2008, Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) revealed that he wrote about eighty verses over a 5-year stretch to his iconic song, “Hallelujah”, before choosing the four verses released on his “Various Positions” album in 1984. The following is my cover of the five verses used by Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) for his signature 1994 recording of Cohen’s classic.

Imagine, if you will, that you had the charisma of President Donald Trump along with his knack for drawing the unwanted attention of an “Ugly Woman!” That’s the inspiration for Kazoo Hero’s parody of Roy Orbison’s signature 1964 song, “Pretty Woman.” Kazoo Hero extends his sincerest apology to the legion of female also-rans afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome who could not be featured in “Ugly Woman.” His Honorable Mentions are Whoopi Goldberg and the other stricken women of “The View” on ABC; journalist wannabes Rachel Maddow, Kaitlan Collins, and Megyn Kelly; Senators Lisa Murkowski and Elizabeth Warren; New York Governor Kathleen Hochul; and Biden acolytes Kamala Harris and Karine Jean-Pierre.

"The Burden" parodies "The Weight”, 1968’s first person ballad by “The Band”. But instead of agreeing to pass on Fanny’s regards to her friends in Nazareth, Kazoo Hero’s burden is to convey Donald’s distain to leftist haters he meets while walking in Washington D.C.

A more accurate title for the “Pure Michigan” ad campaign would be “Pure Marxism.” In the dirtiest political campaign since Democrats stole the 2020 Election, the evil troika of Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, and Jocelyn Benson finagled its way to an undeserved second term. Under the pretense that abortion and “gender affirming” surgery are “healthcare rights”, voters were duped into removing all curbs on them, even parental consent for minors. Moreover, the unsavory fraud bared in the film “2000 Mules” was legalized via an amendment to Michigan’s Constitution. Ergo, “Michigan Blues” expresses my outrage to the tune of Melvin Endsley’s 1956 blues standard.

Kazoo Hero reimagines “They're Coming to Take Me Away” the 1966 novelty song by Jerry Samuels (aka Napoleon XIV). Instead of a runaway dog driving him crazy, Kazoo Hero, one of millions of disenfranchised Michigan voters, bemoans the crime that put Joe Biden in the White House instead of Donald Trump, the rightful winner of the 2020 Election. He’s especially peeved at power mad co-conspirator Gretchen Whitmer for the massive Detroit ballot trafficking fraud that’s exposed in Dinesh D’Souza’s brilliant documentary film, “2000 Mules.”

Kazoo Hero’s “D.C. Gulag Blues” parodies Johnny Cash’s classic 1955 prison ballad to give a peaceful protestor’s account of his jailing for an alleged “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. His experience is in stark contrast to the willful failure of Democratic Mayors and Governors to enforce laws against the epidemic of riots, looting, and arson perpetrated by leftist hate groups during the Summer of 2020.

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“Truth Serum No. 9" uses the melody of “Love Potion No. 9", the 1959 song about a luckless man who consults a gypsy woman to help him find love. Kazoo Hero’s parody concerns a habitual liar who asks a Facebook user to help him tell the truth.

"Barry and Joey" is sung to the melody of "Frankie and Johnny", a traditional American murder ballad about a woman who kills her unfaithful lover in a fit of rage. Kazoo Hero’s parody tells of the shameful way two haters are killing our country.

In 1926, a Native American told a 12-year-old Arizona boy that when a soul leaves its physical body, it becomes a spirit in the sky. When young Stan Jones shared this with a friend, the boys looked up in awe as they imagined each cloud taking on the shape of a ghost. Twenty-two years later, his boyhood memory inspired Stan to compose “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” It’s about a cowboy who encounters spirits herding cattle in the sky. A specter warns him to change his ways to avoid forever “trying to catch the Devil’s herd across these endless skies". If you like my version of Stan’s timeless song, please share it with your friends. So, here’s “Ghost Riders in the Sky.”

This facts-based fable is written in the style of the legendary seventh century, B.C. Greek storyteller credited as the writer of “Aesop’s Fables”. The true story of the 2020 Presidential Election and its aftermath is Kazoo Hero's first effort in the genre.