It's the Day's Day of Days! Because cities on flame with rock and roll.
You know, it's kind of amazing how completely Muir's mangled Cohen's classic here, both by terrible efforts to insert the words he wants while destroying the rhymes and rhythm of the song, to the fact that, well, Muir and his ilk were the bad guys who'd won in the original. And then there's the just... awful nature of this, Muir's hypocritical, brittle-boned fascism on display, hurling every lie and invective it can muster in a desperate attempt to seem tough that only underlines its wretchedness and its weakness.
Thank you for saying what I was feeling. Bunch of people in the comments gushing about Cohen, and I have to wonder, do they realize he was not on their side? I mean, if I recall correctly, The Partisan was not about a right-wing militia fighter.
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