Over psychiaters, advocaten en bankiers

De buurman van Eric Clapton, Gary Brooker, frontman van Procol Harum, wist het in de jaren ’70 al dat van advocaten en bankiers alleen het slechtste verwacht kon worden. In het nummer “As strong as Samson” op het album Exotic Birds and Fruit uit 1974 toont de toenmalige superband – bekend van de Salty Dog and A whiter shade of pale – zich gewoonweg profetisch. De woorden en het geluid:

Psychiatrists and lawyers destroying mankind
Driving them crazy and stealing them blind
Bankers and brokers ruling the world
Storing the silver and hoardin’ the gold

Ain’t no use in preachers preaching
When they don’t know what they’re teaching
Weakest man, be strong as Samson
When you’re being held to ransom

Famine and hardship in true living color
Constant reminders, the plight of our brother
Daily starvation, our diet of news
Fed to the teeth with a barrage of views

Ain’t no use in preachers preaching
When they don’t know what they’re preaching
Weakest man, be strong as Samson
When you’re being held to ransom

Black men and white men and Arabs and Jews
Causing congestion and filling the queues
Fighting for freedom the truth and the word
Fighting the war for the end of the world

Ain’t no use in preachers preaching
When they don’t know what they’re teaching
Weakest man, be strong as Samson
When you’re being held to ransom

Ain’t no use in preachers preaching
When they don’t know what they’re teaching
Weakest man, be strong as Samson
When you’re being held to ransom

Ain’t no use, ain’t no use, ain’t no use
Strong as Samson
When you’re being held to ransom