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Song A Day #619: The Ballad of Terry Jones and his Incendiary Bigoted Buffoonery

1,110 views · Published 12 September 2010 · 3:45 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: Jonathan Mann · 2010 · Music

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I decided to go with a title with a meaning that could not possibly be mistaken.

There were obviously a lot of responses to my Koran song, naturally. Despite knowing ahead of time that people would miss the sarcasm, the satire, I was still surprised by the amount of people.

I wanted to write a follow-up song. It's not so much the here-and-now of Terry Jones' publicity stunt, and it never was. It's about the hatred and intolerance that is bubbling back up to the stoplight after, what, 20 or so years of being just beneath the surface. We are not post-racial, we are not post-religion. These people are serious, and the trouble that they're stirring up is bound to have dire consequences somewhere down the line. That was the point of the last song, perhaps a little too subtly, and so here it is, more explicit.

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