{"id":5773,"date":"2017-08-13T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2017-08-13T21:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T02:02:29","slug":"hi-dee-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2017\/08\/hi-dee-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: WTF? A: Hi-dee Hi-dee Hi-dee Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived White House communications director, is making the rounds on TV next week.\u00a0Scaramucci will be interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week<\/em> on Sunday. Then he’ll appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS on Monday.” — CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TrebleFolks, here’s a story about Tony the Moocha’
\nHe was the red-hot Scaramucc(a)
\nThe roughest, toughest gym-ripped male
\nAin’t no way is he gonna end up in jail<\/p>\n

(Call and response chorus)<\/em>
\nHi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
\nWhoa-a-a-a-ah (whoa-a-a-a-ah)
\nHee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee (hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee)
\nHe-e-e-e-e-e-e-y (he-e-e-e-e-e-e-y)<\/p>\n

\"Anthony
Anthony Scaramucci, Wikimedia Commons<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mooch took the call<\/a>, sold stocks, his wife just gone
\nFame’s ahead — what could go wrong
\nLeft the Street named Wall for an Office that’s Oval
\nWon’t bury Caesar, but he packed a shovel<\/p>\n

(Call and response chorus)<\/em>
\nHi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
\n(Similar scat<\/a> improv for lines 3 and 4)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Cab<\/a>
Cab Calloway, 1942. Original lyrics<\/a>. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spicer the mouthpiece took stock, ups and leaves us
\nFlynn and Comey first, there comes Priebus
\nThe Briefing Room went to Huckabee Sanders
\nSarah would take queries then she meanders<\/p>\n

(Call and response chorus)<\/em>
\nHi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
\n(More complex scat improv for lines 3 and 4)<\/em><\/p>\n

On Russia, Jeff Sessions sure rushes to recuse
\nThis Don makes offers folks start to refuse
\nMueller gathers files while still quiet is Steve Bannon
\nGeneral Kelly musters out Mooch, that loose cannon<\/p>\n

(Call and response chorus)<\/em>
\nHi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
\n(Dare the crowd to follow scat improv for lines 3 and 4)<\/em><\/p>\n

Poor us, poor us, poor us<\/p>\n

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Fair use parody, if I do say so myself, of “Minnie the Moocher<\/a>” by Cab Calloway<\/a> and Irving Mills<\/a>. Surely, there’s a thousand more of these penned this summer.<\/p>\n

Cab Calloway in 1932:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/zhUCItCCQmQ?t=19s<\/p>\n

Cab Calloway in 1980<\/p>\n