The toe-tapping song “The Auctioneer” was produced by EconomInCrisis to raise awareness about the problems generated by international acquisitions of American companies. Listen to it here (right click and select 'open in new window') and follow along with the lyrics below:
Lyrics:
High bidder, sly bidder
Coming to America
High bidder, foreign bidder,
Coming over here
Foreign bidder, buy bidder
Buying up America
Listen to the gavel of the auctioneer!
Bid ‘em up, hit ‘em up
Set ‘em up, get ‘em up
Buy ‘em up, tie ‘em up
You can’t fail!
Bring your money, bring your stash
We’re in need of ready cash
Come to the great all-American sale!
Come from the east,
come from the west,
Pick out the companies you like best,
Closing out all our American stock,
Everything going on the auction block
Worldwide, well-known American companies
Buy ‘em fast while they last
Get ‘em while they’re hot!
Roads and steel and automobile
Textiles, banks and who knows what
Food, Technologies, communication
Movies and companies centuries old
Machine tools, publishing, Aviation
Line ‘em up, sign em up, sold, sold, sold!
Names of companies, numerous to mention
Calling your attention to names of a few
Lucent Technology, Frigidaire, Pillsbury
RCA, Zenith and Miller Brew
Who gets the profit, who takes the loss,
Who becomes servant, who becomes boss,
That’s a distinction not very clear
When your fate is in the hands of the auctioneer
France and Germany, Netherlands too
Bid and won pieces of the Red, White and Blue,
So did the Brits and the Red Chinese
Koreans and the Swedes and the Japanese
High bidder, sly bidder
Buying up America
Making us a colony
Taking over here
What an absurd world
We became the third world
When you hear the gavel of the auctioneer!
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