My fellow true Americans

Come take a look around

Let’s tour the countryside to see

What’s up and what’s gone down

America’s been changing

Since our salad days at school

Seems now to politicians

We’re all simpleminded fools

Your gas gauge sits on empty friend

Your kids wear worn-out shoes

Your bills bug you to scream

Till you’re too hoarse to sing the blues

You sweat and bust your aching butt

To earn an honest buck

The taxman bites your paycheck

Like a mad dog run amuck

They tax us folks who do the work then send it down the line

To pay off mokes who sponge and shirk or sit around and whine

Five hundred thou’ to find out how cow farts pollute the air

Two hundred million squandered on a dumb bridge to nowhere

We’re up the creek without an oar

It’s pointless to deny

We can’t afford this anymore

That’s plain as apple pie

We’d best employ some common sense

Or soon we’ll feel the pain

Of drowning in a sea of debt

While swirling down the drain

They tax us folks who do the work then send it down the line

To pay off mokes who sponge and shirk or sit around and whine

Five hundred thou’ to find out how cow farts pollute the air

Two hundred million squandered on a dumb bridge to nowhere