ARREST THIS SCARY GENTLEMAN | A Tale of the Postmaster

Written by Don Caron with COMALite J | Performed by Don Caron | Executive Producers Sally Headley and Jack Heighway SUBSCRIBE ABOVE TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW VIDEO - Be sure to click the little bell to activate the notification. To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=8527316 Parody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shop LYRICS for ARREST THIS SCARY GENTLEMAN Arrest this scary gentleman! Do it without delay! Remember how our First Class Mail used to arrive next day? But mailboxes and sort-machines have vanished, gone away. Oh, indictments for the crimes of DeJoy Crimes of De Joy Oh, indictments for the crimes of DeJoy. The president has penchant for selecting appointees that will dismantle the department that they oversee. The Post Office has not been an exception from his spree ‘cause he sees the country as another toy he can enjoy. Never mind the countless lives he will destroy. Trump decided he believed that mail-in votes would cause a loss to him in the election so out came the clause, and he appointed Lu DeJoy as new head of the Mail. Some of us think that DeJoy should be in jail without bail Some of us think that DeJoy should be in jail. When Katie Porter questioned Lu, “What do stamps cost these days?" He said he had no knowledge of that kind of stuff, per se. How many mail-in votes to expect he had not a clue. Yet he scrapped the sort machines, an act that he won’t undo And he threw away collection boxes too. Trump refused to sign a bill to bail the PO out. And vote by mail was at the core of reasons he did spout. He brazenly admitted he would like to see them fail with the extra load of the election mail; A death knell for the post office and USA as well. Since when do presidents attempt to undermine the vote? Appointing people who will grab the country by the throat? He'll lie and cheat his way to winning his election bid, with a constant pro quo following his quid That’s what he did! We need a way of him we can be rid. Six key Trump advisors have been busted for their sins. Papadopoulos, Gates, Mannafort, Bannon, Michaels Cohen & Flynn DeJoy if he don’t watch his step, will soon be joining them Oh, indictments for crimes of DeJoy and who employed him Indictments for the crimes of DeJoy. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL TUNE God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is also known as Tidings of Comfort and Joy, and by variant incipits as Come All You Worthy Gentlemen; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; God Rest Ye, Merry Christians; or God Rest You Merry People All. It is one of the oldest extant carols, dated to the 16th century or earlier. The earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. The traditional English melody is in the minor mode; the earliest printed edition of the melody appears to be in a parody, in the 1829 Facetiae of William Hone. It had been traditional and associated with the carol since at least the mid-18th century, when it was recorded by James Nares under the title "The old Christmas Carol". The carol is referred to in Charles Dickens' 1843 A Christmas Carol: "... at the first sound of 'God bless you, merry gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!', Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost." The transitive use of the verb rest in the sense "to keep, cause to continue, to remain" is typical of 16th- to 17th-century language (the phrase rest you merry is recorded in the 1540s). The first line "often is mis-punctuated" as "God rest you, merry gentlemen" because in contemporary language, rest has lost its use "with a predicate adjective following and qualifying the object" (Century Dictionary). This is the case already in the 1775 variant, and is also reflected by Dickens' replacement of the verb rest by bless in his 1843 quote of the incipit as "God bless you, merry gentlemen". The adjective merry in Early Modern English had a wider sense of "pleasant; bountiful, prosperous". Some variants give the pronoun in the first line as ye instead of you, in a pseudo-archaism. In fact, ye would never have been correct, because ye is a subjective pronoun only, never an objective pronoun.