Great video for this one! “The Soup Song”

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The Duke and Duchess noticed that the stock market took quite a dive yesterday. Hope that our readers were not too hurt by that.*

“The Soup Song” is the Royal Peace Song of the Day for Friday, August 5, 2011. The attention paid to the economy, the banks, and Wall Street due to the stock market correction yesterday, caused us to turn to the section on “Rich and Poor” in the Rise Up Singing songbook. The lyrics are by Maurice Sugar. The tune is to the traditional song, “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean”.

Here is a sample of the lyrics:

I’m spending my nights in the flop house
I’m spending my days on the street
I’m looking for work and I find none
I wish I had something to eat

Chorus:
Soup, Soup, they gave me a bowl of soup (2x)

The song is also especially appropriate, because today, the government will be releasing a jobs report with unemployment figures. And, the forecast is that it will be bad.

Hope this song might cheer the unemployed. And, perhaps, motivate others to make personal, financial, and political decisions to acknowledge and support those in need. This song also suggests that war is not the best answer, and that soldiers cannot count on the government to help them after they leave the war.

*Are there really peace activists in the stock market? While some people in peace activist groups tend to believe or project that we are all poor and aloof from the stock market, I think more people than we realize hold stock. Some peace-minded people work in government or nonprofit jobs where they are helping the world, and they also have 401K’s. Some people create retirement accounts in mutual funds, and some of those people actually practice socially responsible investing. Some activists hold token stocks in big, bad corporations, as a way to get a voice and a vote at the shareholders meeting.