Η μπαλάντα του Γιώργου στους Financial Times

Ο ΓΑΠ ως Freddie MercuryΆρχισε και το διεθνές δούλεμα στον ΓΑΠΔύο κωμικοί, που ζήτησαν να τηρηθεί η ανωνυμία τους, έστειλαν  στον αρχισυντάκτη των διεθνών θεμάτων οικονομίας των Financial Times, μια παρωδία του γνωστού τραγουδιού των Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”, με τίτλο “Athenian Rhapsody”(The Ballad of Papandreou). O συντάκτης των FT, χαριτολογώντας, γράφει ότι η συντακτική ομάδα της εφημερίδας διεξήγαγε την απαιτούμενη έρευνα για να επιβεβαιώσει ότι ο ένας εκ των κωμικών δεν είναι ο γνωστός Άγγλος κωμικός Ben Elton. Αλλά δεν μπορούμε να σας δώσουμε την πλήρη επιβεβαίωση της πληροφορίας, συμπληρώνει ο ίδιος.Αφού ζητά συγνώμη από τα μέλη των Queen, Mercury, May, Taylor και Deacon, παραθέτει την παρωδία, την οποία προτείνουμε να την διαβάστε στον ρυθμό του αυθεντικού “Bohemian Rhapsody”Athenian Rhapsody (The Ballad of Papandreou)Is this our real debt?Is this just fantasy?Won in a landslideNow I’m facing austerityI opened the booksAnd said “are you kidding me?”Did what we did to get into the EurozoneSo there was never a need to growEuro’s high, rates stayed lowAnything to enter, didn’t really matter to Greece, to GreecePapa, just told the truthNo one’s paying any taxAnd my colleagues here are hacksPapa, Greece had everythingBut the bankers came and took it all awayPapa, ooh ooh ooh oohGoldman told us it would workand now I sit here like a jerkThey were wrong, they were wrong, that swap illusion’s shatteredToo late, the market crashedMy country’s on the brinkAnd my bond spreads really stinkGoodbye to the good life – it’s got to goI never thought our bonds could trade so lowPapa, ooh ooh ooh ooh – (anyway my yields go)No one wants to buyAnd some folks wish they never had bought at all…We need some euros need some euros very fastMykonos, Skiathos, you can sell them to ChinaDSK and Regling – say our debt is frightening – Hey,Papandreou, Papandreou,Papandreou, Papandreou,Papandreou runs the show – he’s out of dough oh oh ohHe’s a professor from MinnesotaHe’s a professor leading his countryFound that the Greeks had been cooking the booksBail in – bail out – will you bail us out?ECB. Nein! We will not bail you outBail us outIMF. We will not bail you outBail us out PSI. We will not bail you outBail us outWill not bail you outBail us out (never)Never bail you outBail us outNever bail you out – ooh ooh oohNein, nein nein nein nein nein nein!Oh mama Merkel, mama Merkel, mama Merkel we’ll defaultThe Bundestag has no package set aside for GreeceFor GreeceFor GreeceChina: 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 yeahOnce we had an empireThat is history How did this transpire? – back to Minnesota for me.Goodbye to the Euro…(Θεωρήσαμε προτιμότερο να αναδημοσιεύσουμε την ..μπαλάντα  του ΓΑΠ στα Αγγλικά, καθώς στα Ελληνικά χάνεται το νόημα)