Eric Clapton Sings Anti-Lockdown Song; Trolls Mock His Dead Kid

Eric Clapton Sings Anti-Lockdown Song; Trolls Mock His Dead Kid by JAMES DELINGPOLE for Breitbart

What exactly is wrong with writing and singing a protest song calling for more freedom?

Plenty, apparently, if your names are Van Morrison and Eric Clapton. Their anti-lockdown song “Stand and Deliver” — which Morrison wrote and Clapton performs — has attracted so much bile and outrage from the radical left you’d think they’d just performed a benefit gig for the Ku Klux Klan.

Watch below: 

[GNN Note – This is the uncensored version. Breitbart, for whatever reason, published the censored version and you can’t understand what the problem is.]

Here is a sample of the song’s lyrics:

Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you’re lying in the grave?

I don’t wanna be a pauper
And I don’t wanna be a prince
I don’t wanna be a pauper
And I don’t wanna be a prince
I just wanna do my job
Playing the blues for friends

Sounds reasonable, no? The singer is making a plea just to be left alone so he can get on and enjoy doing what he’s good at, in this case “playing the blues for friends.”

It’s a sentiment that could have been expressed by pretty much any musician since the dawn of popular music — anyone from Robert Johnson to Jimi Hendrix to Bob Marley. Yet the hatred directed toward its creators on Twitter and elsewhere has been truly monstrous.

Here’s Vanity Fair with a cheap shot about the musicians’ age and supposed health vulnerabilities:

Van Morrison and Eric Clapton, both age 75 and at high COVID risk, collaborate on anti-lockdown track https://t.co/MmLXRenMlQ

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 20, 2020

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The original full lyrics.

Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask too
Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask too
Take a look in the mirror
I got what’s happenin’ to you

Do you wanna be a free man
Do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a king
Or just remain a knave?

Do you wanna be a pauper
Or do you wanna be a prince?
Do you wanna be a pauper
Or do you wanna be a prince?
You wanna get robbed from behind?
Cast your fate to the wind

Magna Carta, Bill of Rights
Constitution, what’s it worth?
You know they gonna grind us down
‘Till it really hurts
Is this a sovereign nation
Or just a fascist state?
You better look out, people
‘Fore it gets too late

[Instrumental interlude]

You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on floggin’ the dead horse?
You wanna be your own driver
Or keep on floggin’ the dead horse?
You wanna make it better
Or do you wanna make it worse?

Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask too
Stand and deliver
Dick Turpin wore a mask too
Take a look in the mirror
I got what’s happenin’ to you