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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them - Morris Udall
(With all due respect to Lloyd-Weber & Rice)
ReplyDelete[to be sung sometime in the not too distant future]
Oh what a circus! Oh what a show!
America has gone to town
Over the election of an young man called Obama Barak
We've all gone crazy
Partying all day and dancing all night
Falling over ourselves to get all
Of the ecstasy right
Oh what an entrance! That's how to go!
When they're ringing your curtain down
Demand to be feted like the "capital" O
It's quite a sunset
And good for the country in a roundabout way
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today
But who is this Santa Obama?
Why all this howling hysterical hubris?
What kind of savior has lived among us?
How did we ever get by without him?
He had his moments--he had some style
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, "Obama Barak"
But that'll be gone soon
As soon as the smoke from the election clears
We're all going to see and how he did nothing for years!
CROWD
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
CHE
You let down your people Obama
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted
Not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver
Sing you fools! But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen (?!) is dead, your king is through
He's not coming back to you
Show business kept us all alive
Since the primary season of 2005
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
Instead of government we had a stage
Instead of ideas a prima donna's rage
Instead of help we were given a crowd
He didn't say much but she said it loud
Sing you fools? But you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
he's not coming back to you