For Ormonde, who said in the comments to my post on banker Bob Diamond:
In the Great Depression, Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Jesus Christ." In it he attributed the death of Jesus to "the bankers and the preachers."
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That's the song, Mimi! I would have added "the politicians," but that probably wouldn't have fit the verse.
ReplyDeleteCarn Woody!!
ReplyDeletewv - comic. Bankers are not so very comic.
Aye, carn Woody!
ReplyDeleteHadn't heard this song. Very Guthrie.
ReplyDeleteThe version I heard in college, around 1960, had the refrain,
Now Jesus had no wife
To mourn for his life,
He needed a bath and a shave.
But that foe of the proletariat,
Judas Iscariot,
Has laid Jesus Christ in his grave.
This one is very 1960s, I think, with Historical Jesus and Marxist approach. Or Premature Sixties anyway.
Porlock, I could not find the date that the song was composed, but Woody was in psychiatric hospitals due to the effects of Huntington's disease from 1957 on, until his death in 1967, so I expect the song pre-dated the 1960s.
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