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Upcoming Events
Lonnie Carter's play "The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy" will open the 25th anniversary season of Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago's Lincoln Park - September 21 - October 16th.
"Boogedy Boogedy" was first done at Victory Gardens in 1985 and reprised in '86 at the New Federal Theatre in New York City.
Call the box office at (773) 871-3000 for more info. Or see the Victory Gardens Website.
Don't miss this show!
September 21st til October 16th
What you're about to see
Is shadrach meshach abed-nego and me
We boys and girls were thrown headlong
By the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar headstrong
We got pile driven into a fiery furnace
'cause we refused to bow down, we said, come on, mutha, burn us
we do not believe in your golden statue
we worship the lord god on high
you got us bound but we say, right back atchoo
we shall survive
we shall prevail
the dream's alive
all false gods fail
if you never been stopped for D W B = Driving While Black
I got to reveal in the sovereign state - W Y B - Watch Your Back
Now that you done spent your penny
Had you some candy, you bring me any?
I just foolin', I wouldn't take your sweets
Bad for my chompers I brusha brusha after each eats
Now what was that you just saw
Something about the law?
In the uppest halls of justice blindness
A king goes on trial for his misdemeanors and crimes high
The high hard ones he does in his heart and mindness
The low soft ones he handles on the fly
Which come worse
The ones he co -mits
Or the sins of O-mits , remember 'sin'?
To the better of your recollection
Good and evil, what a bore
We got metal detectors for morality
Just check your conscience at the door
Though a better world is the dimmest hope
Still we got to keep pushing the enve-lope
Now it's brother Shad's turn
And he's doin' a burn
He's going to lay it all out
Like the thrilla in manilla
Make the devil twist and shout
It's barrister Rach 'gainst old NebZilla
EPILOGUE
We right chare at the epicenter of the Epilogue
We been havin' us a time
Dabblin' in rhyme
Slippin' into some Biblical skinny
Getting' the sinny on some Biblical dippin'
Double lippin' and entendre flippin'
But now it's time to count the day's noses
'cause these are the days of lies and poses
Photo ops campaign stops
Prayer breakfasts invoking the testaments Old and New
The Torah the Koran
Allah and Yahweh
Of Muslim Christian Rastafarian and Jew
But none of it means
A Capitol hill of beans
All these crocodile prebidential tears
And cries for forgiveness
Fall on deaf ears
'cause it's usual bidness
Gardens whose rosebush pricks draw blood from us all
The Republic the state the commonweal all set up for a fall
We knew you chomped on a big one when you dumped Lani for speaking the
truth
Right then and there we should've kicked your cracker butt right out of
the broadcast booth
But what we need now is NOT blame and recrimination
But a great big old fashioned bath in the woodshed with a rough scrub
brush and some
Harsh lye for those lies to the nation
Every time you got the bads
You want us to hold the goods
'fess up from the start ,Bubba
feel the pain for real in what's left of your heart, RubbaTubba
anything less and it's - This dog don't hunt
What you're about to see
Is shadrach meshach abed-nego and me
We boys and girls were thrown headlong
By the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar headstrong
We got pile driven into a fiery furnace
'cause we refused to bow down, we said, come on, mutha, burn us
we do not believe in your golden statue
we worship the lord god on high
you got us bound but we say, right back atchoo
we shall survive
we shall prevail
the dream's alive
all false gods fail
if you never been stopped for D W B = Driving While Black
I got to reveal in the sovereign state - W Y B - Watch Your Back
Passed Events - SEE WHAT YOU MISSED:
4 April 1998
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