Fiscal Policy Blues
words and music ©2006-12 by Howard Ashby Kranz
A
We’ve got poverty, violence, and AIDS and despair;
A
We’ve got crime, unemployment and poisoned air;
D
We’ve got drugs and depression, hatred and greed.
A
It’s plain as day what this country needs.
E A
We need a middle class tax cut, oh yeah, a middle class tax cut, uh-huh,
E D A
We need a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
Well the schools are scary and the cities are crumbling,
Decaying along with morale and the plumbing.
There’s debts to be paid in the land of the free.
You politicians better face the hard reality:
We need an upper class tax cut, oh yeah, an upper class tax cut, uh-huh,
We need an upper class tax cut, to set this country right.
D
Now the American taxpayer ain’t no dope.
A
Stop talking all this infrastructure and hope.
D
Just as soon as we’ve built enough prisons and bombs
Just rebate the change, and we’ll party on, oh yeah.
We got terror and uprisings, Kims and Husseins,
And most of the world needs a regime change,
But united we stand; we’ll pay any price,
We’ll come through with hard work and sacrifice
And a gas tax holiday, oh yeah, a gas tax holiday, uh-huh
We need a gas tax holiday, to set this country right.
I’ll tell you how to save this nation:
Just free our banks from all these regulations.
Just let the free market go to town,
And then watch it all boom and trickle down, oh yeah.
If Jesus came down to this world today,
You know darn well what the man would say,
He’d say, “Love your neighbor, get ‘em off of welfare,
Give ‘em right to bear arms and to public school prayer
And a government shutdown, O Lordy, a government shutdown,
Thou shalt have a government shutdown to set this country right.
Keep on extending those tax cuts; I’ve got the fiscal policy blues.
Middle Class Tax Cut Blues (2009 Version)
words and music ©2006-09 by Howard Ashby Kranz
A
We’ve got poverty, violence, and AIDS and despair;
A
We’ve got crime, unemployment and poisoned air;
D
We’ve got drugs and depression, hatred and greed.
A
It’s plain as day what this country needs.
E A
We need a middle class tax cut, a middle class tax cut,
E D A
We need a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
Well the schools are scary and the cities are crumbling,
Decaying along with morale and the plumbing.
There’s debts to be paid in the land of the free.
You politicians better face the hard reality:
We need an upper class tax cut, an upper class tax cut,
We need an upper class tax cut, to set this country right.
D
Now the American taxpayer ain’t no dope.
A
Stop talking all this infrastructure and hope.
D
Just as soon as we’ve built enough prisons and bombs
Just rebate the change, and we’ll party on, oh yeah.
Got Osama Bin Laden and all those Husseins,
And most of the world needs a regime change,
But united we stand; we’ll pay any price,
We’ll come through with hard work and sacrifice
And a gas tax holiday, we need a gas tax holiday,
We need a gas tax holiday, to set this country right.
I’ll tell you how to save this nation:
Just free our banks from all these regulations.
Just let the free market do what it can do,
And then watch it all boom and trickle down on you, oh yeah.
If Jesus came down to this world today,
You know darn well what the man would say,
He’d say, “Love your neighbor, get ‘em off of
welfare,
Give ‘em right to bear arms and to public
school prayer
And a big bucks bailout, O Lordy, big bucks
bailout,
Thou shalt have a big bucks bailout, to set this country right.
We need a middle class tax cut; I’ve got the middle class tax cut
blues.
Middle Class Tax Cut Blues (2006 Version)
words and music ©2006 by Howard Ashby Kranz
A
We’ve got poverty, violence, and AIDS and despair;
A
We’ve got crime, unemployment and poisoned air;
D
We’ve got drugs and depression, hatred and greed.
A
It’s plain as day what this country needs.
E A
We need a middle class tax cut, a middle class tax cut,
E D A
We need a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
Well the schools are scary and the cities are crumbling,
Decaying along with morale and the plumbing.
There’s debts to be paid in the land of the free.
You politicians better face the hard reality:
We need a middle class tax cut, a middle class tax cut,
We need a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
D
Well the middle class taxpayer ain’t no fool
A
Stop spending all our money on foreigners and schools.
D
Just give us each a few hundred to spend around
And then watch it all boom and trickle down, oh yeah.
Got Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,
And most of the world needs a regime change,
But united we stand; we’ll pay any price,
We’ll come through with hard work and sacrifice
And a middle class tax cut, we need a middle class tax cut,
We need a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
Now the middle class taxpayer ain’t no dope.
Stop talking all this infrastructure and hope.
Just as soon as we’ve built enough prisons and bombs
Just rebate the change, and we’ll party on, oh yeah.
If Jesus came down to this world today,
You know darn well what the man would say,
He’d say, “Love your neighbor, get ‘em off of
welfare,
Give ‘em right to bear arms and to public
school prayer
And a middle class tax cut, O Lordy, a middle
class tax cut,
Thou shalt have a middle class tax cut, to set this country right.
We need a middle class tax cut; I’ve got the middle class tax cut
blues.