Always wanted to write a protest song; I finally did. Written 3/22/09 & played on a 1996 Guild DV52 named 'Fungo'...

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A heartland ballad recognizing that today's trillions are yesterday's millions and tomorrow's pennies...

Property of TexScratch:

Don't have me a Harvard education
Just a job once worked 9 to 5
Then I lost it to your policies & regulations

And now my wife and kids, they struggle to get by
You eat caviar looking down from a silver sky
TV talk shows, a trillion laughs to keep us high and you don't see

In your world terror's just opinion
Of a few who can't seem to forget
And 911's consequences never happened

Yet we fight a war as you create our debt
Spreading wealth to those with loans they shouldn't let
Your Shangri-La will change our global economy but you don't see

Popularity can be a fleeting moment
Fifteen minutes of glory passes by
Leaving years of hard fought dedication

To the history books rewritten as a lie
Socialize yourself but let me be & I'll get by
Founding fathers and Lincoln set us free and you can't see

Hollywood hero, not your typical politician
Got Pelosi, Dodd and Frank to pave the way
Robin Hood brings change upon a nation

A country trusted you to change our night to day
From guns to butter, and in Robin's name they pray
Peace will finally come and forever more to be -Who's left to see?

Not me