Butterflies And Bureaucrats
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Lyrics
On East Hidalgo Street there lives
the smallest butterfly.
Her parents came from somewhere south
of where the border lies.
She hops and skips and jumps because
life within her flows,
but whether she will be here next year,
no one really knows.
At sixteen hundred Penn there lives
the biggest bureaucrat.
He’ll serve one term or maybe two
and when he’s done with that
he’ll write a book and in it say
that ev’rything he did
was for the good of you and me,
and all the rest stays hid.
A butterfly knows no borders
and bureaucrats follow orders.
No person is illegal
even when spread-eagle.
In Middleburg the plutocrats
have horses and estates.
And when they call on the White House
they never have to wait.
The plutocrat tells Mister Prez,
“Don’t deport them all.
‘Cos if you do there’s no one
to clean my horses’ stalls.”
