Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXII; What they flush in Phoenix splashes on the border, and is felt everywhere.
Last week in Part LXXI, as agents and attorneys continued to find classified materials strewn about the Biden Delaware property, we continued to mock purloiner-in-chief. This week, we will visit Hollywood while remaining in the comfort zone of song parody.
In 1957, a western story by Elmore Leonard was turned into 3:10 to Yuma, a movie starring Glenn Ford as the outlaw Ben Wade, taken into custody after a fatal stagecoach robbery and set to be put on the eponymous train to the territorial prison in the eponymous town. Van Heflin played Dan Evans, the down-on-his-luck rancher suffering through a drought who agrees to put Wade on the railcar for cash to forestall foreclosure on his property. Standing in the way of the completion of the task is the outlaw’s gang (led by Richard Jaeckel in one of his bad guy roles), angry vigilantes and a feckless citizenry who talk about justice until they actually have to stand up for it.
Though a movie with the same title and same character names was made a half century later in 2007 with Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, it should not be confused with the original. Given the cast and the plot, it might have been called “Shane meets High Noon”, as this time there was no good gunman to keep Van Heflin’s character from having to confront the bad guys, though as it was in both movies, the other so called good guys had plenty of excuses as to why he was on his own.
The movie’s theme song was belted out by Frankie Laine, who was one of the most versatile and popular male vocalists of the preceding decade, and was still the choice for western movie theme songs in the mid 1970s, when he performed the opening for “Blazing Saddles”. His vocal stylings received the hearty endorsement of Noah Beery Jr. is his role as Rocky in “The Rockford Files” during an episode in the fourth season entitled “The Queen of Peru”, when he observed that Frankie Laine was a fellow who sang like a real man.
The version of the song that appeared in the movie had lyrics that reflected the plot, as reflected below:
There is a lonely train,
Called the 3: 10 to Yuma.
The pounding of the wheels,
Is more like a mournful sigh.
There’s a legend and there’s a rumor.
When you take the 3: 10 to Yuma,
You can see the ghosts,
Of outlaws go riding by, (riding by)
In the sky (in the sky),
Way up high.
The buzzards keep circling’the train,
While below the cattle are thirsting for rain.
It’s also true they say,
On the 3: 10 to Yuma,
A man can meet his fate
for fate travels everywhere.
Though you’ve got no reason to go there,
And there ain’t a soul that you know there.
When the 3: 10 to Yuma whistles its sad refrain.
Take that train
Take that train
So when you take the train
Called 3 10 to uma
And leave the things you love, you leave with a sigh,
Though you’ve got no reason to go there,
And there ain’t a soul that you know there.
When the 3: 10 to Yuma whistles its sad refrain.
Take that train
Take that train.
In later collections of his hits, Frankie Laine offered a different version of the lyrics, turning a song of drought and fate into more of a love song: I am reminded Yuma and two versions of the same song when
I want to ride again on the 3.10 to yuma
that’s where i saw my love
the girl with the golden hair
not a word between us was spoken
no the silence never was broken
but before she left her eyes said a sad goodbye
sad am i sad am i
to think of the chance that i missed
i could cry to think of the lips left unkissed
Perhaps she’ll ride again on the 3.10 to yuma
and i can meet my love and tell her how much i care
though i have no reason to go there
and there’s not a soul that i know there
when the 3.10 to yuma leaves if i have the fare
i’ll be there i’ll be there i’ll be there
I was reminded of Yuma and two versions of the same song when I saw this article about the illegal aliens causing services in Yuma to crumble. These type of stories, of course, have become quite common in the two years since January, 2021, when throngs of migrants in Biden-Harris t-shirts began lining up along our border with Mexico, planning to cross illegally into the US once the new administration undid all of the protective and corrective measures established by the Trump administration to protect our national sovereignty.
This was particularly significant in Arizona, as for the 2022 midterm elections, there were stark choices for the Arizona voters. They could choose a senator who was shown to sing one version of a song in Washington D.C. by voting with Schumer and Biden, and then another back home; or vote for the republican. There were similar choices between candidates for governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
There were reports and many clear examples of election irregularities, particularly in Maricopa County, where Phoenix and its suburbs dominate. Though the margins of victory reported were quite close, democrats dominated in these races, in large part due to ticket splitting by republican voters in this contested county, according to the Washington Post. Assuming for the sake of discussion that the study is correct, it appears that the folks in Yuma are reaping what the turncoats in Phoenix have sown.
In that light, I present yet another version of what was once a movie theme song, to reflect the drama playing out in Yuma now, with an admonition to those voting elsewhere in the state:
There was an election,
now they feel it in Yuma.
The pounding of the feet,
to fake an asylum claim.
An election and then a rumor
now the illegals are flocking to Yuma
You can see their shirts,
as they put on the Biden name, (Biden name)
He’s to blame (he’s to blame),
Just the same
the folks who supported McCain,
elected democrats again.
and if that’s true they say,
as they feel it in Yuma,
A man can split his vote
For ballots are everywhere.
Though you’ve got no reason to choose them,
if elected all trust they’ll abuse then.
Then the people in Yuma will sing this sad refrain.
Use your brain
Use your brain
So when you count the votes
of the people in Yuma
in Phoenix they go wrong, and leave you with a sigh,
‘Though they’ve got no reason to do it,
in Maricopa you know they blew it
and the people in Yuma will sing this sad refrain.
It’s insane
It’s insane
#Parody #Ridicule #Alinsky #Biden
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