THE STATE IS CALLED PARIAH - A Parody | Lyrics by David Buckna

Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender Production and Performance by Don Caron Lyrics by David Buckna To help keep Parody Project alive and functioning, please visit https://parodyproject.com/supportus Parody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shop To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/parodyproject You can sign up to our mailing list on our website so you don't miss any of our new posts. https://parodyproject.com/subscribe/ LYRICS Pariah, Pariah They call the state Pariah A way out there they got the names that oligarchs acquire Their leader's Vlad, quagmire grows And the State is called Pariah Pariah’s recklessness abounds They send their missiles flyin' The sky is filled with awful sounds Ukrainians out there dyin' Pariah, Pariah They call the state Pariah And now all know Pariah's name And what it is denyin' laid bare its plan for all to see with the war crimes numbers risin' But then we know resistance grows Zelensky on the TVs Pariah censors the word "war" Exodus of refugees Pariah, Pariah They call the state Pariah Orwellian Newspeak dominates Disinformation only But that regime is all alone In isolation lonely. Unprovoked was the attack Pandora's box is broken Pariah, leave and don't come back for all the world has spoken Pariah, Pariah They call the state Pariah Pariah, Pariah all wish to be free ABOUT THE ORIGINAL VERSION "They Call the Wind Maria" is an American popular song with lyrics written by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical, Paint Your Wagon, which is set in the California Gold Rush. Rufus Smith originally sang the song on Broadway, and Joseph Leader was the original singer in London's West End. It quickly became a runaway hit, and during the Korean War, the song was among the "popular music listened to by the troops". Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra recorded the song in 1951, and it was among the "popular hit singles at the record stores" that year. It has since become a standard, performed by many notable singers across several genres of popular music. A striking feature of the song in the original orchestration (also used in many cover versions), is a driving, rhythmic pattern, played on the string instruments, that evokes a sense of restless motion. It has been referred to as Paint Your Wagon's "best known song" and "rousing but plaintive." Musicologist Stephen Citron wrote, "Perhaps the most unusual song in the score is a beautiful ballad of lonely prospectors hungering for their women, "They Call the Wind Maria" – not chauvinistic in this case, for each man is yearning for his own girl." Lehman Engel wrote that the song "has a cowboy flavor", and commented that "In the lyric, its folk quality is accentuated." Engel concluded that "Lerner has invented an interesting kind of narration". Princeton University historian Robert V. Wells wrote that it is "a sad and wistful song about being far from home". Theater historian Don B. Wilmeth called the song "haunting", and said that it evokes "emptiness". Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.