If there is a better moniker for Trump than "Hypersensitive Jester" we haven't heard it. (For that matter, "Tinkertoy Town" seems entirely appropriate for Washington.)
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The rescue of today's tune from obscurity is a story in itself. The creator of the video reports:
"I bought this album, 'Introducing Denny Guy' (1972) for 25 cents in a bargain bin 40 years ago, knowing nothing about it or the songwriter. "Hypersensitive Jester" earwormed around in my skull all that time, so I cyber-tracked Denny Guy down to his boat out on the Pacific. He gave me a clean sound file and permission to create and post this video."
Lyrics:
He's a hypersensitive jester
with his axe of a magical brown,
and the name of the game
was filling the vein
with the junk of a Tinkertoy town.
Now stuff runs thicker than water--
at least, that's what he's told--
and the clouds in his mind
are the sign of the times
of the times that make young men old.
He'll chance romance, he'll enhance you.
Then he'll ask you: "Roll up your sleeve."
Give a kiss to your arm
with his patented charm
to put men to your suffering and greed.
But a kiss, it doesn't last for a lifetime
and besides, it's not always around
but the hypersensitive jester
can be found in the Tinkertoy town.
Links:
Day 1 (The Inauguration) - "Hands" - Jewel
Day 2 (The Million Woman March) - "Testimony" by Ferron, sung by Marcelle Davies Lashley
Day 3 - "Ruins" - by Cat Stevens
Day 4 - "Eve of Destruction" (1964) - by P. F. Sloan performed by Barry McGuire
Day 5 - "Hypersensive Jester" - by Denny Guy
Day 6 - "Teresa" - by John Stewart
Day 7 - "Black Boys on Mopeds" by Sinéad O'Connor
Day 8 - "Burn, Baby, Burn" - by Bruce Cockburn
Day 9 - "Black Day in July" - by Gordon Lightfoot
Day 10 - "Democracy is Coming" - Leonard Cohen
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