Springsteen Lashes Out At Bankers

[WillyT]

Springsteen lashes out at bankers
Posted by Online - Tempo
Jun 2nd, 2012



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BERLIN (Reuters) – Rocker Bruce Springsteen touched on a nerve of widespread discontent with the financiers and bankers at a Berlin concert on Wednesday, railing against them as “greedy thieves” and “robber barons.”

Springsteen, a singer-songwriter dubbed “The Boss” who has long championed populist causes, played to a sold-out crowd at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, singing from his album “Wrecking Ball” and speaking about tough economic times that have put people out of work worldwide and led to debt crises in Greece and other countries.

“In America, a lot of people have lost their jobs,” said Springsteen, 62, who performed for three hours to some 58,000 fans in the packed stadium that hosted the 1936 Olympics and the 2006 World Cup final.

“But also in Europe and in Berlin, times are tough,” he added, speaking in fluent German. “This song is for all those who are struggling.” He then introduced “Jack of All Trades,” a withering attack on bankers that includes the lyrics: “The banker man grows fat, working man grows thin.”

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Lyrics to “Jack of All Trades”:

I’ll mow your lawn
Clean the leaves out your drain
I’ll mend your roof to keep out the rain
I’ll take the work that God provides
I’m a Jack of all trades
Honey, we’ll be alright

I’ll hammer the nails
And I’ll set the stone
I’ll harvest your crops when they’re ripe and grown
I’ll pull that engine apart and patch her up
Until she’s running right
I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright

A hurricane blows
Brings a hard rain
When the blue sky breaks
Feels like the world’s gonna change
We’ll start caring for each other like Jesus said that we might
I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright

The banker man grows fatter
The working man grows thin
It’s all happened before and it’ll happen again
It’ll happen again
They’ll bet your life
I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright

Now sometimes tomorrow comes soaked in treasure and blood
Here we stood the drought
Now we’ll stand the flood
There’s a new world coming
I can see the light
I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright

So you use what you’ve got
And you learn to make do
You take the old, you make it new
If I had me a gun
I’d find the bastards and shoot ‘em on sight

I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright
I’m a Jack of all trades
We’ll be alright

[RebelOne]

1. Love "The Boss"

He tells like it is.

[WillyT]

2. Me Too !!!

[Bigmack]

3. I posted this song to FB...

...and said "If you can listen to this one without a lump in your throat, you're hopeless."

".... shoot 'em on sight.." is my favorite line.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. Maybe the Boss would stand as a candidate for us one day?

[Betsy Ross]

5. How much are tickets to his concerts? n/t

[boppers]

6. $35-$114 on initial sales market.

After scalper markups, often going for about $130-150 each, but sometimes as high as $9,000.

Per ticket.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=8523374

[SixString]

7. You'll always get your money's worth at a Springsteen concert.

Few bands will play for three hours .
The Boss will.
Bruce delivers.

[Nostradammit]

8. Why do you ask?