By Guy Page

Former Vermont Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie has released a second protest song, this time taking aim at Vermont’s Democratic legislative majority and nonprofit organizations he portrays as the state’s would-be new kings.

The new song, Vermont Freedom and Unity, was released about 10 days ago. Dubie wrote the lyrics, then used artificial intelligence to produce a recording with an Irish folk music flavor.

The song invokes Vermont Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, comparing their resistance to British rule with what Dubie sees as today’s struggle against state taxes, spending and land-use restrictions.

“Old Ethan Allen stood on frozen ground / Said no king tells a Green Mountain Boy what to do,” the song begins.

Another verse targets lawmakers and land-use policies:

“Now Montpelier’s kings wear suits and come for you / They draw corridors across your back forty / Then tax the land they say you cannot use.”

The lyrics also criticize lawmakers’ efforts to make Vermont more affordable, accusing them of seeking new sources of tax revenue while working families struggle to remain in the state.

The song follows Dubie’s April release, Act 181 Coming, Vermont Working Lands Squeeze, which criticized Vermont’s land-use law and rising costs facing dairy farmers, maple producers, loggers and other rural residents.

That song included the line, “Property taxes jumped forty-one percent in five years flat / While we’re bustin’ our backs just to keep the lights on, that’s a fact.”

Dubie said at the time that he and his wife Penny had been writing AI-assisted songs for their children’s birthdays for years before deciding to put the technology to work for Vermont’s growing property rights movement.

A Republican, Dubie served as Vermont’s 80th lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2011 and narrowly lost the 2010 governor’s race. He is a retired commercial airline pilot who retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a colonel.

He remains active in public life as vice-chair of the Fairfield Selectboard and works in his family’s maple sugaring operation.

Feature photo of Brian and Penny Dubie from Sono.com.