--Horatio Algeranon's rendition of the song by Willie Dixon
(and made famous by Muddy Waters)
The gypsy woman told my mother
Before I was born
You got a boy child's comin'
Gonna be an AG son of a gun
He gonna make climate scientists
Jump and shout
Then the world wanna know
What this all about
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well, I'm your hoochie coochie, Mann
Everybody knows I'm here.
I got a McCarthyite tone
I got a subpoena or two
I got the Kenny Coocheroo
I'm gonna mess with you
I'm gonna make you journalists
Lead me by my hand
Then the world will know
The hoochie coochie man
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well, I'm the hoochie coochie man
Everybody knows I'm here
On the seventh hour
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
Seven "Skeptics" say
He was born for Denial
That you'll see
I got seven hundred thousand dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm here
Everybody knows I'm here
Well, you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
The whole round world know I'm here
Click here to listen to Horatio sing the blues (or not)
Inspired by climate scientist Michael Tobis -- "Coochie and the Witch Hunt" (and by Muddy Waters, of course)
Update May 7
In response to the rash of recent actions and statements by folks like Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (who is currently engaged in a "fishing expedition" to discredit climate scientist Michael Mann) , scientists are fighting back.
The journal Science just published a letter (click here) from over 250 members of the US National Academy of Sciences (11 of them Nobel Prize winners) that includes the following statement:
"We call for an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues based on innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distractions to avoid taking action [on climate change], and the outright lies being spread about them"
In other words,
Back off, Hoochie Coochie Man !
We're scientists !
