Spectator competition winners: protest songs for the Donald’s detractors

You were invited to follow in the footsteps of Green Day and Moby and provide Donald Trump’s detractors with a protest song. Where’s Woody Guthrie when you need him, you might ask. Well, as it turns out, the Dust Bowl Troubadour was well acquainted with the Trump family. In the early Fifties Guthrie was a tenant of the Donald’s father, Fred Trump, and the literary scholar Will Kaufman has discovered lyrics he wrote at that time excoriating ‘Old Man Trump’’s racist bigotry. Billy Bragg has set the bar pretty high with his excellent reworking of that other folk icon Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’ (‘The Times They Are a-Changin’ Back’) but Alan Millard’s Dylan-esque entry was well done too and earns him the bonus fiver. The rest take £30.

Alan Millard Come gather around, I’ve a sad tale to tell Of a bigot and bully, the bigwig from Hell With hair like a beaver’s tail plastered in gel But he’s only a flash in the pan, man, only a flash       in the pan.

He’s macho misogynist, coarse to the core, A groper and grabber of pussies galore Who claims it’s all locker room talk, nothing more, But he’s only a flash in the pan, man, only a flash       in the pan.

You Mexicans, Muslims and immigrants all, He believes he can bar you by building a wall And it won’t be like Jericho’s, destined to fall, But he’s only a flash in the pan, man, only a flash       in the pan.

He’s Putin’s prize puppet, a bolshie buffoon With the farcical face of a comic cartoon Who thinks he’s a guru yet acts like a goon, But he’s only a flash in the pan, man, only a flash       in the pan.