INSURRECTIONIST BLUES IN THE KEY OF SEE

Why Insurrectionist Blues in the key of see?

Because you saw what I saw, what everyone watching saw, including the spectators in the watch-tent at the pre-insurrection rally that delivered marching orders.

Have you ever received marching orders? Did you march? If you’re a veteran of any service the answer is yes.

The difference is The Man.

Service people, veterans, got their marching orders from someone who would ruin your day if you didn’t comply.

Do you understand how this works?

We had a guy in training who recycled through the ‘conditioning platoon’ and ended up with us.

He was an older guy, maybe twenty-three, and had no respect for nineteen year olds.

But I took it upon myself to help. Why? Because if he failed, the platoon failed, and we would all be punished with some sort of ingenious bullshit that Drill Sergeants and no one else knows.

It wasn’t like the guy was unfit. He was just fat and out of shape, too out of shape to keep up, which is what landed him in Conditioning Platoon.

Like too many people unable to function at the level required, this one took a superior attitude. He mattered more than the rest of us.

However, that’s not how the system works.

The all-Volunteer Army of the mid-70’s worked to make the big guys smaller and the small guys bigger with the goal of creating a nice even fabric of military indoctrination.

In other words, the usual goals of boot camp

Except this guy declined to participate in the shrinking and expanding part of the program. He was his own man, and the rest of us were a bunch of suckers and losers.

He sang his own Insurrectionist Blues until the platoon took action. He was a role model for something, showing authorities he knew better than them what needed doing.

A benefit of serving in the Armed Forces with a screw up is marching order.

The top performing platoon leads the company on marches.

Before you think this isn’t important, consider the long marches, not the parade ground lock step.

The whole company hikes up and over steep fire breaks on the hills around Fort Ord.

The top guys get clean air up front. Everyone else eats dirt, but none more than the last platoon in formation.

They breathe the kicked up dirt and the flying dust dirt lands on them.

Fred White joined the best platoon, guys used to marching in the front spot. His antics landed them in back.

Insurrectionist Blues On Jan. 6

A Rolling Stones soundtrack might play over a movie of the Jan. 6 insurrection, aka Capitol Riot.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want?

I went down to the insurrection
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, “We’re gonna vent our frustration
If we don’t we’re gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse

You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
Can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find
You get what you need

Satisfaction?

I can’t get no insurrection, I can’t get no satisfaction
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can’t get no, I can’t get no

When I’m drivin’ in my car, and the man come on the radio
He’s tellin’ me more and more about some useless information
Supposed to fire my imagination

When I’m watchin’ my TV and a man comes on and tells me
How white my shirts can be
But, he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t smoke
The same cigarettes as me

Sympathy For The Devil?

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long years
Stole million man’s soul an faith

The End Song? New Insurrectionist Blues:

Where were you when the glass broke? Behind the stage where you spoke.

You promised to lead the way after we all heard what you had to say.

This is your country, go take it back. So off they went to the Capitol attack.

Angry and mean and clubbing cops’ heads, leaving fear and destruction and five dead.

The golden man with the drippy nose said stand-up and you rose.

He watched the pain while knowing while the insurrection was going.

The plan he had in mind didn’t have to work the first time.

Silence was not bought for those who got caught.

They will sing in defiance of their bad man alliance.

To clear their name and let freedom reign they’ll find a camera and explain.

We followed orders, man, now that guy doesn’t give a damn.

He told us what to do and say while he packed up and walked away.

Now we know how we’ve been used and the time is now to pay some dues.

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And a one, and a two, and a three.

All together now, Insurrectionist Blues for some background music.

Tap your foot and sing along.