Would we be in the fix we are in now if...
Lee Harvey Oswald had been tried? Jack Ruby? Lyndon Johnson? Robert McNamara, General Hershey and General Westmoreland?
If the Iran-Contra Secret Team had been prosecuted? If the CIA had been tried for funding the Contras with the profits of crack and cocaine?
If George H. W. Bush had been prosecuted for the invasion of Panama?
If Clinton had been prosecuted for the bombing of Baghdad, Syria, Afghanistan -- and Yugoslavia?
The criminal deeds of the Bush Administration and the corrupt bankers of Wall Street should not be hidden or go unpunished.
The people have the right and need to know the truth. Let it come out at trial.
If not, whatever hope an Obama Administration may be able to offer will quickly disappear.
This song is intended to help lubricate a citizens' drive to bring to justice the wrong doers atop the rubble of democracy.
Any use or recording toward that end is approved by the author.
Dan Scanlan, vocal and ukulele
Dan Scanlan, vocal, ukulele, bass
Dan Scanlan, vocal, ukulele; Richard Tewes, bass, harmony; Carol Meals, ukulele, harmony; Adam Heilbrun, harmonica
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It’s a shame, it’s a crime, they should all be doing time
It’s a shame it’s a crime, they should all be doing time.
They’re stealing from your grandchildren, And your great grandchildren, too
They’re stealing from your cousin, Hell, they’re stealing from you
They’re stealing from the plumber, And robbing the corner store
They’re stealing from the homeless, They’re rotten to the core
The dollar that they loan you, it isn’t even fact
But they’ll throw you in the street if you don’t pay it back.
They’re stealing from your embryo, And the kids that it might bear
They’re stealing grandpa’s nest egg, They’re robbing the cupboard bare
They’re stealing the last sip, Of the last cold glass of beer
They’re stealing all the chips, In their poker game of fear
They’re stealing your decisions, And filling you with lies
They’re killing off your children with a war that never dies
Impeachment isn’t good enough for their evil plague
They should be in shackles, kneeling at The Hague.
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