High Hopes Bernie Sanders Song
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2016
- This is my version of "High Hopes" with new lyrics for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. "High Hopes" is the song that Frank Sinatra modified for JFK's campaign. The backing track is available on Amazon by searching for "High Hopes karaoke" and picking the excellent version by the "Karaoke Jazz Big Band". This video was made with no commercial intent!
My lyrics are:
High Hopes for Bernie Sanders
Next time you’re told that Bernie Sanders can’t win
There’s a lot you could say, so listen in
Vote for Bernie, everyone should
Feel the Bern in your neighborhood
Everyone knows that he could
Do the country some good
Cause he’s got high hopes
He’s got high hopes
He’s got jobs, school and peace:
He’s got my hopes
Come on and vote for Bernie,
let’s vote for Bernie
And common sense ‘ll prevail
Woops there goes the greedy billionaires
Woops there goes the xenophobic fears
Woops there goes the climate denyeers plot
Next time you’re told that Bernie Sanders’ll fail
There’s a lot you could say; tell them this tale
This land’s your land, and it is mine
Time to stop that corporate crime
Let’s put the demos back in
Our democracy now
Cause we’ve got high hopes,
we’ve got high hopes
We’ve got healthcare and clean air in the sky hopes
Come on and vote for Bernie,
let’s vote for Bernie and
show the Congress who leads
Woops there goes the prisons we don’t need
Woops there goes the bankrupt war machine
Woops there goes the way the country’s been run
Cause we’ve got high hopes, we’ve got high hopes
We’ll get Bernie to D.C. with high hopes
Come on and vote for Bernie, let’s vote for Bernie
And you can feel the Bern too
Woops there goes the banks too big to fail
Woops there goes the lobbyists to jail
Woops there goes the politicians for sale.
-- Rex Dean - Комедії
Beautiful voice! perfect lyrics!
#feelingthebern
+tracy mccormack Thank you! The lyrics were actually pulled directly from what Bernie talks about, and just re-arranged!
I love this!
#Bernie2016 #FeelTheBern #WisconsinYesWeDidIt
+BlueEyedShorty Thank you! Now we just need to get California on board...
Wow! Beautiful voice! Love this song. Yay Bernie!
Thanks!
You are incredible
Wonderful!
Thank you!
Just found your lovely song...Love it! #BernieOrBust
Thanks for finding the song, and loving it! I really appreciate it. :)
bravo. im blasting this over big speakers!
+mfslicks That just makes me smile. Thanks!
Rex, you are fabulous and your voice is amazing! I enjoyed listening to you! Congrats!!
I love your voice. Great job!
+Brenda Brown Thanks for listening. Please share with Cali friends before it's too late! I've still got high hopes for Bernie... :)
Just sent this to my 85 yr old mother. Thanks, love it!
That's my target audience! People over 30 need to join the revolution, too. Thanks!
+Rex Dean -- Makes sense. :)
+Rex Dean Just heard back from my mom. She loves your song and shared it with all her friends. Thanks again :)
+Daffodil Underhill That's great, thank you for putting a smile on my face! :)
love it. #feelthebern .
Excellent parody song! What a voice! Vote for Bernie! #FeeltheBern
Thanks! I wish I could have voted more than once for him!
Awesome!!!
+Sue Craker Thanks!
Very Welcome!!!
Love, love this song! Great words, nice voice too! Sharing w/ all my Facebook friends and I will make public too on Facebook! This should be made into a recording and aired all over !!!
Thanks so much! If anyone in the campaign thought it'd be useful, I'd love to re-record it with a live band.
I just love this sooooooo much!!!! And my 4 year old loves it too💕
+Mightychondria OftheCell I love your screen name. Reminds me of a potential band name I thought of in high school -- "Rex Gene and the Chromosomes". Not good science, but kinda catchy. :)
If you haven't seen the original "High Hopes" that Sinatra did for JFK, you should watch it with your 4 year old, because Frank's got about a hundred kids singing with him!
Beautiful!
+aleeyh69 Thanks!
very good rendition including the great custom lyrics
+idic5 Thank you for listening. It was fun arranging Bernie's message into a song. What's strange (to me) is that the song is funny, while everything in it is kind of tragic. I guess what's hopeful about this campaign, and a song like this, is that the cover's finally being drawn off the way the world actually works.
This fantastic! yeah feelin that BERN!
I LOVE IT !!!! THANK YOU !!!!
+A. C. Thank you for taking the time to listen!
BRAVO!
#FEELTHEBERN
This is great! Great voice, man!
Great
please go to the convention and sing this!!! your awesome
I found this on fb, listened twice and then again here. I LOVE it! Love your voice! This would be such a cheerful song to add to Bernie's music. Vote for Bernie, and best of luck in your carreer and life in general. Thanks for sharing with us.
And now I'm listening again, after I subscribed and listened to your other songs. Everybody, let's tell our friends! Rex Dean, you deserve a big audience!!
I'm a slow starter, but now that my kids have gone off to college, I'm spending more and more time singing. Thank you very much for taking the time to listen.
The lyrics were great. Nice take on the Sinatra/ JFK song.
Love it!
All these comments really make me smile...thank you so much!
I'm in Love!
:D
+Lisa Bennett Yes, we all love Bernie! ;)
Love it! Shared!
+Kristyna Anderson Thank you so much for listening, and sharing!
Wow!!! I love the revamp of the song and your voice is FANTASTIC!!!!! I would love to see you perform live!!!! Bravo!!!!
Thank you! I would love to see me perform live, too! I think I may have as many as a hundred fans...now if we could only get them all in the same place! Thanks for the encouragement, and just know...I'm working on it!
:) Awesome, you would have swayed my Mom's vote with this song.
+Evelyn D Yes, apparently I was born in the wrong generation -- I've been told the only people who would appreciate "High Hopes" are over eighty! Which is fine with me. :)
Rex, fantastic job! Bernie should use that in one of his campaign ads.
As you know Bernie's a big fan of FDR. You might want to do a version of "Happy Days Are Here Again."
+JBrumley32771 Thank you! Turns out there are six chords in this song, and I only know three on the ukulele. And the karaoke versions I found are all female duets. But thank you for making me look -- I found Judy Garland singing the song with Barbra Streisand, which is just adorable: ua-cam.com/video/jYpcFHtxm60/v-deo.html
love it!
+Gloria Waslyn Thank you!
OMG! THIS IS MY VERY FAVORITE!!!!
Thank you for listening!
loved it!
+Aaron Moran Thank you for listening! Please share freely!
Will do.
This is great!
+Linda Smith Thank you!
This is so awesome! 💗💗💗
Melissa Bridges thanks! Let’s hope he runs again!
Phenomenal Rex! :D My 21 year old son is recording 3 albums right now with his 2 a capella groups...may have to get them to write a song for Bernie! ;)
Thanks! I was in an a capella group -- the "Krokodiloes" -- in college, and a few years ago I made a film about our 65th birthday that your son might enjoy. vimeo.com/19105102
Fantastic! Couldn't love this more! Beautiful voice.
+Laurie Davies Sorry for the slow reply (I'm working with a great piano player getting ready to record my first CD), but thank you for listening!
Well done! And thank you. #BernieFuckingSanders
Just wanted to say that I LOVE this song.. Your lines are Very smart.. you have an amazing voice! I hope you don't mind I have been posting this all over the Bernie sites.. WOW I can't tell you have much everyone I loves it.. Just wanted to ask if you have sent it to the Sander Campaign office... YOU sure as hell should...
+Lisa Bostlund Thank you so much for listening, and of course -- PLEASE send it around. Nothing makes me happier than knowing someone enjoys something I made! I did try to contact Sanders' campaign, but never heard back, which is understandable, because they're in contact with tens of thousands of people. If anyone knows anyone who might appreciate it, please share!
I LOVED IT NICE VOICE
Great voice! Great song!
Thank you for listening!
EEEXCELLENT!
Thhhaaannkkk yyoouu! :))))
AHHHHHH! Love this...I giggled and laughed all the way through it! You sound TONS better than M. Buble; I'm tweeting it and sharing it on facebook now : )A kindred Lyrical Mind Ants CAN move rubbertree plants!!!
Can you say: President Sanders??? Thank
+Raven Romera I think the song is funny the way the Daily Show with John Stewart was funny...so awful, you had to laugh. The first step is exposing the corruption...we'll see if enough people both understand what Bernie's talking about, and care about the 99% who're getting the short end of the stick. Thank you for listening, and especially for laughing. :)
This was made in 2016! I LOVE IT. I hope you are still a Bernie fan!! :)
Kelly Sturdevant Absolutely! Thank you for listening!
Hi Rex,
Three years ago we all loved you doing "High Hopes" for Bernie. I asked if you would consider doing FDR's "Happy Days Are Here Again" since he's Bernie's favorite president. You said that (then) you could only find female duet karaoke versions. Well, I did a search tonight and found that Karafun has a male version: Karaoke Happy Days Are Here Again (Man Voice) - 1960s Standards.
I hope you might reconsider if you are #StillSanders. Thanks!
PS: I listened again tonight to "High Hopes", and loved it as much as the first time I heard it! In fact I posted it on Twitter (again)! :-)
Thank you for the song! I loved it!!! :)
+German Thanks for listening. :)
LOVE IT LOVE IT
+Rex Dean -- I'm one of Bernie's 55 Presidential Elector candidates here in California now. Not an unwinnable position. Just a position with low odds or success but a huge payoff. As opposed to those who are casting votes for the lesser of two evil and have very high odds of such votes contributing to making things worse rather than better. I'm including you in a list of shout-o uts in the new video I'm working on. I hope you will consider making a video encouraging people to show up on November 8th rather than to give up,and to shoot for the best possible result rather than falling for the lie that there's nothing they can do to prevent the bad candidates from winning. Every vote for any good candidate increases the odds that the bad ones won't win. :)
We would love to have you sing at the convention please message me....
That would be quite an honor. Not sure how to message you, though!
OMG OMG OMG!!!! PLEASE!!!!
Glad you liked the song! :)
keep this for 2020 ;)
:D
That was brilliant!
My grandmother says she likes your version better than Frankie's! ✊🔥
Wow, thanks! :)
2019, can I use your song for my volunteering for Bernie?
james williams of course!
WAS HOPING THIS WAS A COVER OF THE PINK FLOYD SONG. SO YEAH, THIS SUCKS.
Vote for a communist? No thanks!