GO REST YE WEARY CONGRESSMEN - Greg Trafidlo & Don Caron

Parody of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen with lyrics by Greg Trafidlo and performance by Don Caron presented in the style of Post Modern Jukebox Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender SUPPORT Visit CONTRIBUTE to the PROJECT BTC:              33W8cvkCKupG77ChtTFXeAFmEBCaLcjsBJ ETH:    0x1f36edE7A4F06830D0e3d675776607790a2ce636  SHOP Parody Project Store: PATRONAGE To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page MAILING LIST (Never Shared) LYRICS for GO REST YE WEARY CONGRESSMEN. Greg Trafidlo Go rest ye weary congressmen from all the give and take ‘Cause Washington’s a battlefield, but please make no mistake Just knowing that you’re out of town, will give us all a break We could all use some comfort and joy, comfort and joy We could all use some comfort and joy After your dinner just relax, remembering the good times Exploratory junkets paid for on the people’s dime Those ski resorts and skybox sports must really be sublime We could all use some comfort and joy, comfort and joy We could all use some comfort and joy The Congress’s approval rate is lower than a worm What makes you think that you deserve another two-year term? Why don’t you call a lobbyist, they’d love you at the firm. We could all use some comfort and joy We hope you have a pleasant time on this year’s holiday ‘Cause everybody needs to chill on a wintertime ‘vay-kay’ But do us all a favor, though. Just stay the hell away So we can get some comfort and joy, comfort and joy So we can all get some comfort and joy With Boebert, Gates and Taylor Greene, the crazy list goes on Our only consolation now is George Santos is gone But he’ll be back next year or someone else will come along We could all use some comfort and joy, comfort and joy We could all use some comfort and joy ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen An early version of this carol is found in an anonymous manuscript, dating from the 1650s. It contains a slightly different version of the first line from that found in later texts, with the first line “Sit yow merry gentlemen“ (also transcribed “Sit you merry gentlemen“ and “Sit you merry gentlemen“). The earliest known printed edition of the carol is in a broadsheet dated to c. 1760. A precisely datable reference to the carol is found in the November 1764 edition of the Monthly Review. Some sources claim that the carol dates as far back as the 16th century. Others date it later, to the 18th or early 19th centuries. Although there is a second tune known as ’Cornish’, in print by 1833 and referred to as “the usual version“ in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols, this version is seldom heard today. The better-known traditional English melody is in the minor mode; the earliest printed edition of the melody appears to be in a rondo arrangement for fortepiano by Samuel Wesley, which was already reviewed in 1815. Soon after, it appeared in a parody published in 1820 by William Hone. It had been associated with the carol since at least the mid-18th century, when it was recorded by James Nares in a hand-written manuscript under the title “The old Christmas Carol“. Hone’s version of the tune differs from the present melody in the third line: the full current melody was published by Chappell in 1855. An article in the March 1824 issue of The Gentleman’s Magazine complains that, in London, no Christmas carols are heard “excepting some croaking ballad-singer bawling out ’God rest you, merry gentlemen’, or a like doggerel“. The carol is referred to in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. It is also quoted in George Eliot’s 1861 novel Silas Marner.