American Country Singer Releases Song about Greek Debt Crisis

Merle Hazard, an American satirical country singer has released a really funny song on YouTube titled “Greek Debt Crisis”. Merle Hazard is perhaps best known for his songs about the global credit crisis. He is the first and only country singer to write about mortgage-backed securities, derivatives, and physics.

The artist plays this song at a replication of the Parthenon in Nashville Tennessee originally constructed for Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition.

Watch the music video “Greek Debt Crisis”

Especially for the Greeks Merle offers an explanation together with his song:

To my listeners in Greece: I am a very sincere admirer of the Greek nation, and its people and glorious history. I envy the richness of your cultural tradition, and am an admirer of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Pythagoras and Aristophanes. My song about the Greek debt issue is directed only at financial matters. It is not directed at the people or culture of Greece. Please remember that before I sang about Greek financial problems, I sang several songs about financial problems in my own country, the United States. (For example, these songs: Bailout, Inflation or Deflation?, and H-E-D-G-E.)

I do not want Greece to sell Crete. That will never happen. The idea of a sale is absurd and impossible, to my understanding. I am not making a political statement about Crete or Greece. l mock only governmental policy mistakes, not the people of a nation. Also, I do not really sing at prisons. That is a joke, too. Everything I do really is just satire.

MERLE HAZARD