Is this the same Brad DeLong who mocked certain UC professors for muppet-blogging? Yes, yes it is.
CAIOU! CAIOU!
Daylight come and we want to go home!
CAI we say CAI we say CAI
We say CAI, we say CAI-AI-AI-OU!
Daylight come and we want to go home!Caucus all night on a drink of rum!
Daylight come and we want to go home!
Cut the schools till the morning come!
Daylight come and we want to go home!Come Mr. Schwarzenegger don’t cut our schools.
Daylight come and we want to go home.
Come Mr. Schwarzenegger don’t cut roads and bridges.
Daylight come and we want to go home.It’s 8 billion, 16 billion, 24 billion hole!
Daylight come and we want to go home.
8 billion, 16 billion, 24 billion hole!
Daylight come and we want to go home.CAI we say CAI-AI-AI-OU!
Daylight come and we want to go home.
CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI…
Daylight come and we want to go home.A beautiful state with well-run programs.
Daylight come and we want to go home.
Hides the deadly initiative process.
Daylight come and we want to go home.It’s 8 billion, 16 billion, 24 billion hole!
Daylight come and we want to go home.
8 billion, 16 billion, 24 billion hole!
Daylight come and we want to go home.CAI, we say CAI-AI-AI-OU!
Daylight come and we want to go home.
CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI…
Daylight come and we want to go home.Come Mr. Schwarzenegger don’t veto our budget.
Daylight come and we want to go home.
Come Mr. Schwarzenegger don’t sell off our parks.
Daylight come and we want to go home.CAIOU, CAI-AI-AI-OU!
Daylight come and we want to go home.
CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI, we say CAI,
We say CAI, we say CAI-AI-AI-OU!
Daylight come and me wan’ go home.
The Edge of the American West 
23 comments
July 13, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Ahistoricality
That’s awful.
July 13, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Brad DeLong
That’s the point…
July 13, 2009 at 9:33 pm
kid bitzer
i had imagined it rhyming with ‘bayou’.
so you might want to go all roy orbison on it. or not.
July 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm
eric
Not Roy Orbison, Hank Williams: “Good-bye Joe, me got to go, me oh my oh…”
July 13, 2009 at 9:46 pm
kid bitzer
well, sure. son of a gun, we’re gonna have some fun, etc. i took that as read. (since if you don’t know hank williams, you don’t know shit about american history).
but i’d think the situation in california lends itself more readily to “i feel so bad, i’ve got a worried mind/i’m so lonesome all of the time….”
July 13, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Linkmeister
Williams? No! This is “Day-O,” also known as “The Banana Boat Song.” Made famous by Harry Belafonte.
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Rest of the lyrics are here.
July 14, 2009 at 12:08 am
35:1
Schwarzenegger is sorta like the Bettlejuice of governors. He’s almost one, but not quite. I enjoyed the end of that film when Winona Ryder levitated in the air, chanting the above lyrics (before she stole items from a retail outlet). Tomorrow, reality bites, yo.
July 14, 2009 at 12:09 am
35:1
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
July 14, 2009 at 1:07 am
stevenattewell
Not bad. Then again, comparative economist filk is hard to do, not enough sample for a solid N value.
July 14, 2009 at 5:04 am
max
Hrmm.
I FALL TO PIECES (Patsy Cline)
I fall to pieces
Each time I hear ‘no money to spend’
I fall to pieces
How can this just be one long trend?
You want us to act like we’ve never taxed
You want to forget to spend our tiny revenue
And I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I haven’t yet…
The news come on, and I fall to pieces
I fall to pieces
Each time you fail to fund the state
I fall to pieces
Time only adds to the pain
You tell me to find another state to love
Some state that’ll spend like you used to do
The way you used to do (used to do)
But each time I think about beginning anew,
I feel my wallet, and I fall to pieces
I feel my wallet, and I fall to pieces
max
[‘Beetlejuice!’]
July 14, 2009 at 8:30 am
kathy a.
i’d like to see the video version, with dancing.
July 14, 2009 at 8:30 am
JPool
CAIOU?
(I couldn’t find the episode where he uses his hyper-cephalic powers to balance the state budget, but it seems like that episode could be easily redubbed to be about cuts in essential services.)
July 14, 2009 at 8:56 am
eric
This is “Day-O,” also known as “The Banana Boat Song.” Made famous by Harry Belafonte.
I’m pretty sure I knew that, based on my use of Belafonte lyrics for the post title. kb and I were talking about alternative possibilities based on the pronunciation “bayou”.
July 14, 2009 at 9:30 am
kid bitzer
it ain’t me.
it’s the people that say: the comments smarter than the posts today.
but i say
that the posts these days, are smarter than the comments in every way.
that’s right.
(which is all to say–damn, eric: i hadn’t even picked up on the title, even though i know from belafonte. good for you!)
July 14, 2009 at 9:45 am
kid bitzer
furthermore, this thread should be closed to all further commenters, unless they
drop into line,
rock their body in time.
(somebody help me!)
man, what a lot of great cranial muzak you have stirred up, eric. decades-old stuff comes flooding back. belafonte really was something–great looking, amazing voice, great band-leader. the real ricky ricardo.
July 14, 2009 at 10:07 am
rosmar
Pretty good politics, too.
July 14, 2009 at 10:40 am
eric
I could have done without his cozying up to Chavez. But yes, kb, some great music. And funny; he did a nice version of “Hole in the Bucket” with Eartha Kitt.
July 14, 2009 at 10:42 am
eric
And of course there’s this, which I think is what prompted DeLong’s admonition in the first place.
July 14, 2009 at 10:47 am
Rebecca
My sister and I used to listen to Harry Belafonte Live just so we could hear “There’s a hole in the bucket” song.
Say, like “There’s a hole in the budget.” Ha!
Now…about the post…I always wondered when the people of California were going to regret voting for the popular cute guy rather than one who might have a clue.
July 14, 2009 at 11:04 am
kid bitzer
got, i’d forgotten about that. not only did he pal around with chavez, he also glorified the tallyban. why did he hate america so much?
July 14, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Russell60
I’m upside down, my head is turning around,
Because I gotta sell the house in Levittown.
July 14, 2009 at 12:24 pm
TheBrucolac
Ummm…what’s wrong with “cozying up with Chavez?” We are talking about Cesar Chavez, aren’t we?
July 14, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Russell60
Well, you know, first you’re cozying up to somebody, and next thing you know, you’re palling around with them.