Obamalinks III: Barack room ballads

[pallas_athena]

Catchy reggae Obama song by Cocoa Tea
Obama be thy Name by Kenyan singer Makadem
Viva Obama by the Mariachi Aguilas de Mexico and their big, big hats.

Bonus songs about Presidents:
Washington, Washington
And possibly the best presidential homage ever: James K. Polk by They Might Be Giants. (The instrumental solo is a singing saw!)

The Presidential campaign song is, of course, a time-honoured American tradition. There are several in this blog post, including the one that accused Martin van Buren of moving "at Satan's beck and nod". Those mid-nineteenth-century guys knew how to sling it, yes indeed.

Comments

[breltard95.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite is still "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama."

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

See that, and raise you O'bama Boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlzY-hLhndo).

completely tangential...

[velvetdahlia.livejournal.com]

There was a guy named Lou who played the saw at the party last night-- he played Somewhere Over the Rainbow and it was pretty sublime. He was also wearing a 1950's sharkskin suit and shoes patterned with Campbell's Tomato Soup labels.