Pickle Song - Jordan Smart
3:01
single, 2023
Written by Jordan Smart
In vocal delivery, guitar and percussion arrangement, organ, and pacing, there is no avoiding this song's remarkably close similarity to "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"-era Dylan. The resemblance is so strong, I can't help but wonder if it's a deliberate parody. In the song, pickles are an allegory for immigrants or any other minority group oppressed by right wing jingoists: "I don't ask no one for nothin', work hard as I can / It seems to me that pickles got it easier than man / I say we go on down to the local grocery store / Round up all them pickle jars and smash em on the floor." It's not heavy-handed, and sung with the jovial acerbity of an Arlo Guthrie, and there's a groaner of a pun in the final line that makes me forgive everything else: "But you can keep them Kalamatas, because we all know olives matter."
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