Kings and Queen
This is a post coming about a week too late but…
Now that Leona Helmsley is dead, can someone please, please, please cover Nina Simone’s Martin Luther King Jr. tribute song, ” Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” in honor of Leona Helmsley in the same way that Elton redid his Marilyn Monroe song “Candle in the Wind,” for Princess Diana.
The title? Obviously, “Why? (The Queen of Mean is Dead.)”
Compare Nina:
to Leona:
to Suzanne Pleshette in the 1990 Leona Made-For-TV movie “The Queen of Mean”
In the hopes someone will take up my challenge, here are the lyrics to Nina’s song.
What’s gonna happen now? In all of our cities?
My people are rising; they’re living in lies.
Even if they have to die
Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is
Even at that one moment that ya know what life is
If you have to die, it’s all right
Cause you know what life is
You know what freedom is for one moment of your life
But he had seen the mountaintop
And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you’d better stop and think
Everybody knows we’re on the brink
What will happen, now that the King is dead?
We can all shed tears; it won’t change a thing
Teach your people: Will they ever learn?
Must you always kill with burn and burn with guns
And kill with guns and burn - don’t you know how we gotta react?
But he had seen the mountaintop
And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you’d better stop and think
Everybody knows we’re on the brink
What will happen, now that the King of love is dead?
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