{"id":568,"date":"2011-11-18T20:04:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T06:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/?p=568"},"modified":"2011-11-23T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:31:05","slug":"99-percent-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2011\/11\/18\/99-percent-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"99 percent blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so what&#8217;s a blues song without some words? I finished my tribute to Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s &#8220;Red House&#8221; by cutting some vocals dedicated to the Occupy movement, and the ninety-nine percent struggling to wake up from the nightmare the one percent is inflicting on us every day with corruption, oppression, and greed. Oh, and if you want a blues song without some words, here is the <a title=\"red house blues\" href=\"http:\/\/way.net\/music\/audio\/rich%20rath%20-%20red%20house%20blues.mp3\">instrumental version<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28400476&width=false&height=false&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe directions to the camp are in the song. Beretania and Ward is the location of the <a title=\"(de)Occupy Honolulu\" href=\"http:\/\/deoccupyhonolulu.org\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Occupy<\/span> Honolulu<\/a> camp at Thomas Square. Thomas Square was the site where on July 26, 1843, Admiral Richard Darton Thomas returned the Kingdom of Hawai?i to the Hawaiians after the first illegal takeover, by the British. King Kamehameha III said &#8220;<em>Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ??ina i ka Pono&#8221;<\/em> (meaning &#8220;the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness&#8221;) in his speech at the ceremony marking his restoration. The sentence has become the state motto of Hawaii, incorporated into its seal. The second illegal overthrow was of course the one under which Hawai?i eventually became part of the United States. That is why we cross out &#8220;occupy&#8221; in our name, to show solidarity with the already occupied kingdom, otherwise known as the most heavily militarized state in the Union.<\/p>\n<p>Come down and show some love for <del>Occupy<\/del> Honolulu if you are in town!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-562\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0854.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"IMG_0854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0854-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"(de)Occupy Honolulu\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(de)Occupy Honolulu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>99 Percent Blues <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2011, Rich Rath<\/p>\n<p>Creative Commons Commons Share and Share Alike type 3 license<\/p>\n<p>(based on Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s Red House and a couple hundred other blues songs)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a red house over yonder<br \/>\nBank&#8217;ll get me one of those<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a red house over yonder<\/p>\n<p>Bank they got me one of those<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But I couldn&#8217;t get no bailout money<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">And the bank, well it foreclosed<\/p>\n<p>I was standing on the corner<\/p>\n<p>of Beretania and Ward<\/p>\n<p>Holding signs there on the corner<\/p>\n<p>of Beretania and Ward<\/p>\n<p>I got the 99 blues<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all I can afford<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s ok I still got my guitar if they don&#8217;t take that away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Police say get off the corner<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t occupy this space<\/p>\n<p>Police say get off the corner<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t occupy this space<\/p>\n<p>But i f they haul me off calling for justice<\/p>\n<p>Five more will take my place<\/p>\n<p><em>Extra Verses<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I got three jobs<\/p>\n<p>I can barely pay my rent<\/p>\n<p>I got three jobs<\/p>\n<p>I can barely pay my rent<\/p>\n<p>I got those 99 blues<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t like the one percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Corporations banks and lobbies<\/p>\n<p>Bought the laws beyond a doubt<\/p>\n<p>Corporations banks and lobbies<\/p>\n<p>Bought the laws beyond a doubt<\/p>\n<p>But when we raise our voice in protest<\/p>\n<p>Its a crime to point it out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so what&#8217;s a blues song without some words? I finished my tribute to Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s &#8220;Red House&#8221; by cutting some vocals dedicated to the Occupy movement, and the ninety-nine percent struggling to wake up from the nightmare the one percent is inflicting on us every day with corruption, oppression, and greed. Oh, and if&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/2011\/11\/18\/99-percent-blues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">99 percent blues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/way.net\/waymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}