Monday, September 24, 2012

Swing State Blues




Swing State Blues

They call us undecided;
            We’re still sitting pretty on the split-rail fence.
The electorate’s divided,
            All these ads have made us ornery and tense.
As the pundits have confided,
            We Tarheels are recalcitrantly dense.

To messages from both camps,
            We plug our ears and hold our breath and bitch.
One guy is king of food stamps.
            The other guy is very, very rich.
They’re GOP and Dem champs,
            But we don’t know which is which.

            We’ve got the swing state blues
                        We don’t read the news
                                    We’ve got the swing state blues
                                                We refuse to choose
                                                            We’ve got the swing state blues.

Government should be smaller:
            Keep your hands off my old granny’s Medicare.
If Rush takes another caller,
            I’ll tell him that he’s choking on hot air.
If Reverend Al were taller,
            I’d make him eat Clint Eastwood’s empty chair.

Barack saved General Motors,
            But Mitt Romney keeps the immigrants at bay.
Black helicopter rotors
            Remind us that they’ll take our guns away.
Low-information voters?
            We know enough to stay at home election day.

            We’ve got the swing state blues
                        We don’t read the news
                                    We’ve got the swing state blues
                                                We refuse to choose
                                                            Reconquer Indochina,
                                                            Plus Mecca and Medina . . .
                                                            Stay out of my vagina!
                                                            We’ve got the North Carolina
                                                                        Swing State Blues.
                                                           







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