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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
White House Music! Franklin Pierce: What a Fuckup!
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM
(This is part of an ongoing series rating presidential campaign songs, in rough chronological order. You can find all the previous entries here.)
Franklin Pierce's campaign song, "Pierce and King," is not a very good song, and it has not aged well.
High Locos, Ho Locos, listen while I sing;
A song for you that's good and true about our Pierce and King.Yes, come next March, we'll take the starch out of Fillmore's collar
Old Scott we'll beat the very first heat and make the 'Coons' all holler
Um.
Besides the obvious, there's the weird obsession with electoral politics. Rather than talking about goals or beliefs, it's all about how they'll win the vote. Pierce is largely regarded as one of the biggest presidential failures, and I think his campaign song was an early warning of his ineffectuality. Boo for Pierce.
Lyrics: 1
Enthusiasm: 1
Infectiousness: 3
Total Score: 1.67
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