The Wreck of the Hillary Clinton - Gordon Lightfoot parody

Update, 6/18: I had no idea this would become popular. I am a nobody who had an idea and did this in one take on a laptop while listening to the lyrics in headphones. All criticisms of my singing voice are correct.

After the 1984 election, the Capitol Steps wrote a parody of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" called "The Wreck of the Walter Fritz Mondale" about that presidential campaign. Since Trump beat Hillary largely on the strength of his win in the Midwestern states (especially Michigan), I decided to do the same for the 2016 campaign, writing, singing, and recording this song using Lightfoot's structure. Lyrics below:

The legend lives on from old Brooklyn on down
Of the wreck of the Hillary Clinton
The White House was hers, they had told her, for sure
There’s no way that the orange man will get in
With a loada donor cash many million dollars more
Than Don Trump’s enterprise had control of
The Clinton campaign was to suffer much pain
When the votes of November changed motives

Her crew was the pride of the liberal side
Coming out from the Democrat contest
As candidates go, she was way worse than most
But she had on her side media broadcasts
Concluding that she couldn’t win on herself
She set out to tear down the Donald
Little did she know he would go on to show
He was more like the one they called Ronald

When fall came around their campaigns hit the ground
Both of them had their share of misfortune
Hillary fell and Donald couldn’t tell
Whether he should even try to win
The debates were all tests of president-ness
And most said that Hillary won them
For in all three affairs Donald dwelt on his cares
Plus he did have to deal with some nose phlegm

When October came, the surprises were out
And boy were they hard on the Trump team
A “pussy” remark gave his party a rout
His campaign almost lost all of its steam
But Donald held on and refused to be gone
Though many protested against him
The rest of the fall he doubled down on the gall
That had earned him his primary big win

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When elections turn minutes to hours?
The pundits had said Comey’s letter was dead
But the night defied their guessing powers
At first it had seemed that they’d all shout “YAAS QUEEN”
When the exit polls presaged her victory
Yet the Donald came through where the Great Lakes are blue
In the states where the weather is wintry

The pundits were told that the Blue Wall would hold
No way the Great Lakes could become red
But the night would go on to prove them all wrong
On Penn, Michigan, and Wisconsin
As farther below, the swing states would go
The Great Lakes had pushed Trump to conquest
They voted for him even though he had been
Rated by most as dishonest

In a swanky new pad in Brooklyn they cried
For the doom of the Democrat Party
On Twitter they wailed for their efforts had failed
Though they thought that their base had been hearty
The legend lives on from old Brooklyn on down
Of the wreck of the Hillary Clinton
Elections, they learned, must be actually earned
Lest the votes of November go Trumpin.’

Lyrics copyright: Jack Butler 2016. Music copyright Gordon Lightfoot. Parody.

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