Stay The Fuck In Line

I wish I'd written this song a week ago, but I'd never even heard the phrase until this afternoon.

The phonological ambiguity that is "Stay the fuckin' line" is a happy accident, but I think it adds some texture.

Suitable for singing in queues, with s/fuck/heck/ for the more mannered sorts.

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posted by cortex (20 comments total)

Lyrics:

Stay the fuck in line, [brother, mother, grandfather/grandma, neighbor]
Stay the fuck in line, [sister, father, granddaughter/grandson, stranger]
You gotta vote, vote, vote
Yeah it's democracy on the line
So everybody stay the fuck in line

You gotta flex your voting muscles
Or you lose them
You can't stand up for your choices
Unless you choose them
posted by cortex at 4:20 PM on November 4, 2008

Pete and Woody would be proud.
posted by RussHy at 4:24 PM on November 4, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Yay we're all singing this here in Vermont, more swearing please.
posted by jessamyn at 4:33 PM on November 4, 2008

Nice and fun.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:40 PM on November 4, 2008

Oh hell, we're singing it in London Ontario. (Election or no, we like a good fucking line!)
posted by ~ at 4:48 PM on November 4, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Shall I teach it to my preschool-age children? Maybe...
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:54 PM on November 4, 2008

This might be our generation's 'We Shall Overcome.'

*wipes a single tear from eye*
posted by stet at 5:02 PM on November 4, 2008

xorry rules.
posted by cortex at 5:43 PM on November 4, 2008

CHOOON!
posted by Jofus at 5:46 PM on November 4, 2008

We can only hope this got out in time for people with PA loudspeakers in their vans to drive by polling places.
posted by Burhanistan at 5:46 PM on November 4, 2008

we listened to it again. yay!
posted by jessamyn at 5:49 PM on November 4, 2008

This is more the greatest thing in history.
posted by xorry at 5:57 PM on November 4, 2008

HOly shit that's awesome. You sound like you should be in the Asylum Street Spankers.
posted by notsnot at 6:28 PM on November 4, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

YES.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:31 AM on November 5, 2008

Hell yea, man! What a great and timely effing song! WTG! (way to go?)
posted by snsranch at 4:17 PM on November 5, 2008

Stay the bloody in queue! Or...

This rules.
posted by ORthey at 10:47 AM on November 6, 2008

super great! aches for a mandolin break.
posted by dan g. at 11:14 AM on November 7, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

Hell yeah. Stay the fuck in line.
posted by ageispolis at 4:30 PM on November 8, 2008

That sounds almost exactly like an MDC song. (that's praise, by the way. I wore an MDC hat on election day).
posted by nowonmai at 10:08 PM on November 13, 2008

How did I miss this? This was great.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:03 PM on May 17