[Dialogue] once more, with feeling (and a last verse!)

[W. J.]

The Bailout Blues
Tune: I’ve been working on the railroad
Lyrics: Marshall Jones
 
Verse 1:
I just really need a bailout, all the live long day.
I just gotta have my bailout, just to keep my blues away.
Can’t you see the whistle blowers rise up so early with the sun?
Can’t you hear the lawyers shouting: Something must be done!
 
Refrain:
Bush has gotta go, Cheney’s gotta go, Lehman’s gotta go to jail.
Little did they know, when they told us so, we won’t have to put up bail.
 
Someone’s in collusion with Paulson
Someone making millions I know.
Someone’s in collusion with Wall Street,
Strumming on the old banjo.
 
And singing,
 
Fee, fie, nothing I owe.
Fee, fie, nothing I owe, owe, owe, owe.
Fee, fie, bailout, you know!
Strumming on the old banjo!
 
Verse 2:
I don’t need the regulations, just to do my job.
Gotta have deregulation, to enrich the corporate mob.
Can’t you see the money flooding out our corporate door?
While the stockholders are wond’ring, what’s it going for?
 
(Repeat refrain after each verse)
 
Verse 3:
I’m afraid of going bankrupt, for the world to see! 
I’m afraid to be convicted of irresponsibility.
Now the stockholders are wiped out, now we’re in the red,
And the Feds have come to close us, and they’ll have my head!
 
Verse 4:
Now we really need our bailout to cover up our ass
Not to blame our chronic lying, but to believe this too will pass.
Can’t we see our real illusion: that we’d never be
Accountable for our collusion for all the world to see.
 
Verse 5:
Why, oh why can’t we have health care, all the live long day?
Why we gotta bail out Wall Street, and not let the bastards pay?
We’ve been working all the shit jobs, just to pay the bill
So the Congress now can tax us, by voting on the Hill.
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