Michael Merenda: Listen

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The Bush Boys
by Michael J. Merneda, jr.


Listen up folks the votes are in
It was anyone’s guess who’d win
Democrats had the higher amount
But they lost cuz Florida could not count

Rich men wanna go to the moon
Next they wanna be president too
Pay the piper but you don’t get caught
You won’t believe what the Bush boys bought!

Hush little baby don’t you cry
Daddy’s gonna buy you an alibi
If that alibi don’t work
Daddy’s gonna bribe the county clerk
If that county clerk don’t bribe
Daddy’s got congress on his side
If that congress still don’t budge
Daddy just don’t love you enough

Some say the system is a fraud
Others put all their faith in God
Makes no difference what you say
You’ll get yours at the judgment day

You sink so low up on yr throne
You even instigate a “No Free Speech Zone”
It’ hide and seek but we know those tricks
So I’m gettin busy with the Dixie Chicks

Hush little baby don’t you cry . . .

President tells us we’re at war
Whole world wonderin’, “George, what for?”
Bombs away where the money’s at
How have we all been made house cats?

Protests spread the country wide
Did America want war? You decide.
The troops went in, we all got the blues
But you’d never know it from the network news!

Hush little baby don’t you cry
Daddy’s gonna buy you an alibi
If that alibi don’t work
Daddy’s gonna bribe the county clerk
If that county clerk don’t bribe
Daddy’s got congress on his side
If that congress still don’t budge
DADDY’S IN TIGHT WITH A SUPREME COURT JUDGE!

Hush little baby don’t you cry
Daddy’s gonna buy you an alibi
If that alibi don’t work
Daddy’s gonna bribe the county clerk
If that county clerk don’t bribe
Daddy’s got congress on his side
If that congress still don’t budge
Daddy just don’t love you enough



Original last verse:

Early September 2001
Terror Made war on everyone
They said “Seein as we’re all shocked and stunned,
Won’t you send what you can to my campaign fund”


Extra last verse pierce wrote:

whatcha gonna do george who ya gonna blame
blood on your hands from the oil grab game
the war ain’t over, the war ain’t done
but you’re public enemy number one


The Dixie Chick Verse replaced this verse:

Good girl watches her fortunes grow
She says it’s who you touch and not what you know
The left is lonely and the right’s corrupt
The government intern got knocked up