{"id":41,"date":"2006-07-04T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-07-04T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T10:43:00","slug":"amsterdamjuly-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/amsterdamjuly-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam\/July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/george.jpg\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Pulling down statue of King George III, New York City, July 9, 1776<\/p>\n<p>The following song is loosely based on the Declaration of Indpendence. Lines taken or adapted from the original text are highlighted. The recording was done straight to computer without any benefits of a recording studio. But the quality should be listenable to most ears. Please feel free to share the lyrics and sound file.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/downloads\/declaration.mp3\">declaration.mp3<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">declaration<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" > in the course of human events<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 153, 153);\">  <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">these truths<\/span> betray a liar<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>red rockets glare our flag still there<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>over baghdad nights afire<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>the tyrant king usurps the throne<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>lets slip the dogs of war<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>terror thrown a useless bone<br \/><\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">to settle obsolete scores<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">pull the statue down<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>watch it tip fall and shatter <\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>break his phony crown<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>and his cronies tumble after<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">let facts be submitted to a candid world<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">the chaos of shock and awe<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a long train of abuses<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" ><br \/>he refuses his assent to laws<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">a shadow state perpetual war<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" >mercenary <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">corporations<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">complete the works of death<\/span><\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tyranny and desolation<\/span><\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>pull the statue down<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>watch it tip fall and shatter<br \/><\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">break his phony crown<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>and his cronies tumble after<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">tramped on dragged through<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">a prison of earthly delights<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>strip searched and naked <\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">certain unalienable rights<\/span><\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>morning light frozen height<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">the blinding gates of hell<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">declare the causes which impel<\/span><\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>the day the towers fell<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>pull the statue down<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>watch it tip fall and shatter<br \/>break his phony crown<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>and his cronies tumble after<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>throw the gauntlet down<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">our lives our sacred honor<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u00a9 Brian Rose<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling down statue of King George III, New York City, July 9, 1776 The following song is loosely based on the Declaration of Indpendence. Lines taken or adapted from the original text are highlighted. The recording was done straight to computer without any benefits of a recording studio. But the quality should be listenable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}