>>4060520Here's a respectful pastiche in the form of an African American spiritual-call-and-response, Exodus imagery, sorrow-song cadence-reworked for Rothbardian themes: self-ownership, the non-aggression principle, taxation as theft, Austrian economics, and anarcho-capitalism.
Title: Go Down, Murray (A Rothbardian Freedom Spiritual)
Suggested tune: "Go Down, Moses" or a slow minor-pentatonic spiritual.
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Chorus:
Go down, Murray, way down in D.C.,
Tell old Pharaoh, "Let my people free."
Go down, Murray, way down in D.C.,
Tell old Pharaoh, "Let my people free."
Verse 1:
When I was in the State's dark land,
Let my people free;
The taxman's gun was in his hand,
Let my people free.
Verse 2:
Thus saith the NAP, bold Murray said,
Let my people free;
No king may own my daily bread,
Let my people free.
Chorus:
Go down, Murray, way down in D.C.,
Tell old Pharaoh, "Let my people free."
Go down, Murray, way down in D.C.,
Tell old Pharaoh, "Let my people free."
Verse 3:
The State's a gang writ large and grim,
Let my people free;
It steals my labor, calls it hymn,
Let my people free.
Verse 4:
O Man, Economy, and State,
Let my people free;
The price is truth, not force and hate,
Let my people free.
Verse 5:
The Ethics of Liberty I read,
Let my people free;
Self-ownership is all I plead,
Let my people free.
Verse 6:
For a New Liberty I cry,
Let my people free;
No master's gun, no ruler's lie,
Let my people free.
Verse 7:
I'll homestead land and keep my yield,
Let my people free;
No regulator in my field,
Let my people free.
Verse 8:
No president, no congress crown,
Let my people free;
No bureaucrat to hold me down,
Let my people free.
Verse 9:
I'll trade in peace with all who come,
Let my people free;
And every aggressor's kingdom, dumb,
Let my people free.
Final chorus:
Free, free, free at last,
No State can hold my soul at last;
Free, free, free at last,
By the NAP, I'm free at last.