Financial Times: Athenian Rhapsody

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"Ο Alan Beattie, συντάκτης της οικονομικής στήλης των Financial Times "FT Alphaville", δημοσίευσε μία παρωδία της ροκ όπερας των Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody", έτσι όπως την έγραψαν δύο φίλοι που επιθυμούν να παραμείνουν ανώνυμοι.

 

Ο Συντάκτης τη δημοσιεύει, ζητώντας συγνώμη από τους Mercury, May, Taylor and Deacon...

 

Athenian Rhapsody (The Ballad of Papandreou)

 

Is this our real debt?

Is this just fantasy?

Won in a landslide

Now I’m facing austerity

I opened the books

And said “are you kidding me?”

Did what we did to get into the Eurozone

So there was never a need to grow

Euro’s high, rates stayed low

Anything to enter, didn’t really matter to Greece, to Greece

 

Papa, just told the truth

No one’s paying any tax

And my colleagues here are hacks

Papa, Greece had everything

But the bankers came and took it all away

Papa, ooh ooh ooh ooh

Goldman told us it would work

and now I sit here like a jerk

They were wrong, they were wrong, that swap illusion’s shattered

 

Too late, the market crashed

My country’s on the brink

And my bond spreads really stink

Goodbye to the good life – it’s got to go

I never thought our bonds could trade so low

Papa, ooh ooh ooh ooh – (anyway my yields go)

No one wants to buy

And some folks wish they never had bought at all…

 

We need some euros need some euros very fast

Mykonos, Skiathos, you can sell them to China

DSK and Regling – say our debt is frightening – Hey,

Papandreou, Papandreou,

Papandreou, Papandreou,

Papandreou runs the show – he’s out of dough oh oh oh

 

He’s a professor from Minnesota

He’s a professor leading his country

Found that the Greeks had been cooking the books

 

Bail in – bail out – will you bail us out?

ECB. Nein! We will not bail you out

Bail us out

IMF. We will not bail you out

Bail us out PSI. We will not bail you out

Bail us out

Will not bail you out

Bail us out (never)

Never bail you out

Bail us out

Never bail you out – ooh ooh ooh

Nein, nein nein nein nein nein nein!

Oh mama Merkel, mama Merkel, mama Merkel we’ll default

The Bundestag has no package set aside for Greece

For Greece

For Greece

 

China: So you think you can stiff me and just say goodbye?

So you think I’ll just hold and continue to buy?

You’ll pay us – we’ll want more than Piraeus Ships, airports and banks, as for your unions, no thanks!

 

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah

Once we had an empire

That is history How did this transpire? – back to Minnesota for me.

 

Goodbye to the Euro…"

 

(πηγή: http://webdaily.gr/news/economy/item/3992)