The Resistance has discovered the power of song, and it could be devastating for President Trump. Protesters gathered by Move On and Rise and Resist in Manhattan on Thursday incorporated some new music into their demonstration.
A songbook distributed among the resistors featured spins on timeless classics like “Dancing Queen” and “Last Train To Clarksville,” hilariously revamped as “Puppet King” and “Next Plane To Moscow.” With poignant lyrics such as, “You can dance, you can jive, tweeting out lie after lie,” the movement has never seemed hipper or less desperate.
The pro-Mueller ralliers in Times Square have distributed this songbook. They are currently leading a mass singalong. Please read these lyrics pic.twitter.com/1y36LDFeEg
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 4, 2019
Journalist Michael Tracey documented the singalong on Twitter. The protesters’ rousing rendition of “We Will Survive,” set to Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” was especially arresting. According to video published by Tracey, an activist introduced the song as “number 12 in the hymnal,” before adult demonstrators sang about Trump “blowing Vladimir” and the “pee-pee tape.” (Be sure to stick around for the kazoo interlude.) Impeachment is surely imminent.
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 4, 2019
