I received this reader adaption by from Derek Whipple of the song “I Am Changing My Name To Chrysler,” originally by Tom Paxton. Check out Arlo Guthrie’s adaption of the original from Farm Aid in 2008 in the embedded video player above to get an idea what the tune sounds like.
‘I Am Changing My Name To Boeing’
Oh the value of our pensions are shrinking out of sight,
And corporate welfare is the modern era’s blight,
What the contract used to get us,
Now won’t buy a head of lettuce,
No, the corporate policies aren’t right.
But amid the clouds we spot a shining ray,
We can even glimpse a new and better way,
And we’ve devised a plan of action,
Worked it out the last fraction,
And the union’s going into action here today.
We are changing our name to Boeing,
We are massing down in Olympia, by bus,
We will tell Gov’nor Jay Inslee,
What he did for McNerney Jr. will be perfectly acceptable to us.
We are changing our name to Boeing,
We are heading for that great receiving line,
So when they hand 8.7 million grand out,
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