The Ballad of Hank Paulson

Description: This song was written and produced by Up & Down Theatre Company. (Lindsey Hope Pearlman, Kate Chavez, Robin Holloway) It's political satire, and we play a band calling ourselves The Free Marketeers, country balladeers who tour the nation "preaching the gospel of financial freedom from coast to coast." This song and video are a spoof on the old-time country balladeers who croon about heroic people doing heroic things. We sing praises to our fearless leader Hank Paulson, who used to be CEO of Goldman Sachs, treasury secretary under G.W. Bush, and almost singlehandedly responsible for sending the bank bailout money to the billionaire speculators, while millions of middle-class peoples' pensions and savings went up in smoke. We wrote the song a little over a year ago, after watching the documentary "Inside Job" and deciding that a bit of satirical mockery was called for...