When I was a kid growing up in the sixties, social issues were discussed, not just by polarized pundits, but by musicians who wrote folk songs. As I look around today, I see a paucity of folk song commentary on our collective contemporary condition, and I find this odd. So I am working on a few folk songs myself. A few titles of works in progress:
John Henry Was a Sales Data Number-Crunching Man
This Cube Is Your Cube
Where Has All the Capital Gone
The Answer My Friend, Is Blowin’ in the Cloud
If I Had a Talk Show
Leavin’ on a Skype Conference Call
Go Tell it on CNN
Kisses Sweeter than Genetically Modified High Fructose Corn Syrup
Charlie and the TSA
© Justin Locke
