Yes! Glad that I found this one in the last hours of FAWM before the great shut down. Love the premise and the back and forth conversation discussing allegories and sayings. Catchy chorus that carries and rings try and ties it together. I like that the ending lines (and introduction to the actual nursery rhyme) could also double as a moment of realization for many of the scenarios. 👏🎶

So nice, a great tribute to Woody (I have a "this machine kills fascists" t-shirt). Guitar and vocal sound fantastic. Great take on the prompt and cool take on the "Hole in the Bucket" idea. Wow, I really enjoyed listening to this one!

OK, I really want to cover this song. I just can't get it out of my mind!

Genius idea! So well executed. I love this song, and how you approach a big deep topic slantwise, so effectively. And I adore the framing of the first stanza. Love the melody/pacing of the chorus. This might be my favorite one of your February songs this year (so far, at least).

I remember the song so vividly from my childhood; this is like somebody pulling aside the curtain to reveal what the wizard really is. Powerful, surprising, and angry.

this is a solid folk song in he classic tradition of woody guthrie and leadbelly. there is also a touch of dar williams in one of the melodic lines. interesting how the fates of fish, frogs, and crabs are likened to the exploited working classes. woody would have liked that,

Interesting, in German we have the song about the hole and the bucket too. Your take on the motive is brilliant, turning a children's song into a lecture on capitalism. I also enjoyed listening to your performance. Beautiful!

Great social commentary, and a great use of the folk structure. I love the fishbowl, crabs and frogs references, and so well played and sung.

Beautiful melodies, and the lyrics are such a great exploration of that simple idea. Great stuff!

A timeless melody. It feels like I'm hearing something familiar that I've already known for years. I guess that's an indication of a great song and the ironic folkiness of the words go perfectly with it.

Excellent stuff. So much of the last couple of decades has been about blaming people for the various ways they react badly to being in the bucket, rather than kicking that damn bucket to pieces. And it's so tuneful to boot. One of your nicest melodies, particularly/ironically on the 'bosses' line.

What a cool take on the challenge! I mean, the song in and of itself is brilliant, but you work in that Hole In My Bucket angle and it's a thing of genius. Personally, I think the questions asked in the verses speak profoundly to where we've all ended up, and the metaphors you're using strike home with precision. I also love how each example is a little bit more violent and urgent than the last - really draws you through the song. Beautifully sung (how do you get it to sound like this in a one-take??! Talent, I guess...) and that little snippet of the original at the end is seamless. Great work, sir.

i actually had to look up "there's a hole in my bucket" to catch the references... 😅 beleive it or not, i feel like i've heard this before, but it's vague. really like the metaphor here, and a humorous as the original story is, all that fretting over the broken bucket is all a distraction... this is a nice flip.

having seen first-hand how the big C can zombify a promising social enterprise, i'm not even sure i agree with "the bosses that we work for / take all of our hard work so they can live the dream" — for a lot of them it's more like a f*cked up fever dream they didn't set out to pursue, but were convinced in time it's what they wanted, and we should, too. the undisciplined pursuit of more.

just now i realize all that's maybe a bit much for a song comment, and i'm trying to decide whether to delete it or just let it stand... 😅

Lovely and timely. Great allegory and callback to the old song. My favorite line: if it can be made by man than I could be unmade. Very true.