Lyrics

A sampling from various albums, from the eighties onward, if not upward.

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GEITHNER FIT THE BATTLE AT AIG


Once I built a mortgage, made it run, made it race against time
Once I built a mortgage, now it’s done,
Brother, can you spell sub-prime
Once in sharkskin suits gee we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodly…don’t
Half a million fools went into debt hell
I was the guy with the loan
Say don’t you remember they called me Alan
Hank Paul Larry and Tim
Say don’t you remember, I’m your pal
Brother, can you spare a diamond

CITIZENS UNITED


They say dollars and democracy don’t mix
One swallows the other – guess which
I’m accused of gaming the system
That’s just blaming the victimizer
Cause money is speech, oh yes lots of it
A vote is fine but money is above it
Buying elections, you gotta love it
money wins every time, and it’s no crime
Not now!

I HATE WAL-MART

I boycott Burger King
I boycott Newt Gingrich
I boycott everything
That I’ve seen advertised
Turn on my radio dial
Like to hear something new once in a while
Same old crap, in a brand new style
OK I’m hard to please
So I try to pick and choose
Turn the dial but I always lose
They only play the worst rock and roll
and if you’re lucky maybe once in a while a little blues
And that’s why God made mp3s

(My Favorite Things)


Songs that sell soap and sell cars and sell lifestyles
Anthems of freedom now corporate sieg heils
Songs that bring back all those sweet memories
Thanks, Mitsubishi, and who needs trees?

George Shrub in Smyrna, GeorgiaO SAY CAN YOU SEE?

We need sugar and cotton
Cheap labor, diamonds and oil
The people down there must learn how to share
The things we find in their soil
The peasants there say they want their share
Of all the wealth they produce
Well I believe in democracy
But that’s getting a little bit loose

 

Dave-in-Mexico

STINKIN BLINKIN SINKIN


They’re tearin down the woods to suck up the wealth
Tearin down the right to the national health
Puttin up condos in the wilderness
If it’s a matter of money they Just Say Yes
There’s a hole in the sky but they say you can’t prove it
No profit in ozone so they just remove it
Is the planet heating up, well maybe it’s so
But in a free market no zone can Just Say No

 

HAVE I LEFT ANYTHING OUT?

(A futuristic fantasy)


Every evenin at six o’clock
The whole town will walk around the square
No rival factions, no big attractions
The people will be the reason to be there
In the outlyin districts there’ll be music everywhere
No one will feel out of it unless they really want to
There’ll be no commercially-inspired loneliness to haunt you
Entrance to places of entertainment will be free
So you can wander in and out and dig new sounds
All this will come to be because
Entertainers will be on salary
But they gotta clean up their own coffee grounds!lyrics1

THE STOCKS THEY ARE EXCHANGIN’


Come gather round people wherever you advertise
And admit that the sixties sells Chryslers and fries
And accept it that money don’t talk, it just lies
If your bottom line is worth savin
Then you better start skimmin all the anthems we’ve known
For the stocks, they are exchangin

ENEMY OF THE WEEK

There’s terrorists out in the jungle
They’re shooting our kids up with dope
They want to destroy our democracy
They have no respect for our Pope
These Maoist voodoo drug barons
Are directed from a Cuban think tank
We’ll root them out and restore pluralism
A choice between the IMF and the World Bank

TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLEARCUT

Take me out to the clearcut, take me out and be proud
Show me a desert where tall trees once stood
And I’ll show you a Mexican mill full of wood
And it’s root, root, root for the hoot owl
They’ll be better off down at the zoo
And it’s one clearcut and we’re out
In the chain saw game

GOIN TO HELL


I commute and pollute in the rat race
I live too well, I take up too much space
I buy the right stuff and put it in the wrong place
I’m goin to hell in any caseI’m goin to hell, won’t you please come along?
I try to do the right thing
And I do, but I do it wrong
If I did the right thing
I wouldn’t have to sing this song so long