{"id":31930,"date":"2020-11-17T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31930"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T17:36:12","slug":"fortunate-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=31930","title":{"rendered":"Fortunate Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great rock tune from my college days. I heard Creedance Clearwater Revival playing it recently and thought it was a perfect song for Donald Trump. When I went to look up the lyrics I discovered that they played it for Trump at the White House. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZWijx_AgPiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the lyrics: Trump worshipers&#8230;..Creedence is singing to you.<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nSome folks are born made to wave the flag<br \/>\nOoh, they&#8217;re red, white and blue<br \/>\nAnd when the band plays Hail to the Chief<br \/>\nOoh, they point the cannon at you, Lord<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus ]<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no senator&#8217;s son, son<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no fortunate one, no<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSome folks are born silver spoon in hand<br \/>\nLord, don&#8217;t they help themselves, no<br \/>\nBut when the taxman come&#8217; to the door<br \/>\nLord, the house lookin&#8217; like a rummage sale, yeah<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no millionaire&#8217;s son, no no<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no fortunate one, no<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 3]<br \/>\nYeah, some folks inherit star spangled eyes<br \/>\nOoh, they send you down to war, Lord<br \/>\nAnd when you ask &#8217;em, &#8220;How much should we give?&#8221;<br \/>\nOoh, they only answer &#8220;More, more, more!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus\/Outro]<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no military son, son, Lord<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no fortunate one, one<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no fortunate one, no no no<br \/>\nIt ain&#8217;t me, it ain&#8217;t me<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no fortunate son, no no no<\/p>\n<p>AND TO RUB A LITTLE SALT IN THE WOUNDS REMEMBER WHAT HIS BUDDY HOWARD STERN SAID OF HIM: THAT STD&#8217;S WERE <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/14\/media\/trump-stern-vietnam-stds\/index.html\">HIS VIETNAM<\/a>.  Fortunate Son indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great rock tune from my college days. I heard Creedance Clearwater Revival playing it recently and thought it was a perfect song for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31934,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31930\/revisions\/31934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}