Fun fact #1 about the Cygnet Folk Festival: just about everyone here has a ukulele, either as their primary musical instrument or as a more portable — and expendable — back up for their standard guitar/violin/cello/keyboard/grand piano/45 piece orchestra.

Fun fact #1 about ukuleles: everyone with a uke knows — and LOVES – Vance Joy’s Riptide. It’s the Tiptoe Through The Tulips of the 21st.

Fun fact #1 about Riptide: it’s really really filkable.

This is to the tune of that.

January 2019

I was scared of Commies and The Bomb
I was scared of men in planes who hate our nation’s freedoms
Now all I see is old men who
Tell us what to fear, and profit when we do

Ah-oooh-oooh, ah-oh-oh
I think it’s time

Maybe, stop believing the big lies,
Weigh up more than the down sides
I wanna have a long term plan
They love to tell us who we should hate but
They’ll hit a bump in the road, cause
We’re gonna make our own fate.

There’s this movie showing every night
We all are screwed, we cannot do a thing, it’s such a pity
They call this show The Evening News
But all it’s showing is the same old views

Ah-oooh-oooh, ah-oh-oh
And I think it’s time

Maybe, stop believing the big lies,
Weigh up more than the down sides
I wanna have a long term plan
They love to tell us who we should hate but
They’ll hit a bump in the road, cause
We’re gonna make our own fate.

I just wanna, I just wanna say
Now we’ll get a so-much-better way
We just gotta, we just gotta touch
We can make it, no more fake it means so very much
I swear those haircuts on the screen
Closest thing to Joseph Goebbels that you’ve ever seen, oh

So maybe, stop believing the big lies,
Weigh up more than the down sides
I wanna have a long term plan
They love to tell us who we should hate but
They’ll hit a bump in the road, cause
We’re gonna make our own fate.

[repeat]