Campaign in Song

Jack Lynch

Bushie, Head Out the Mixing Bowl

Today's lyrics are based on Johnny Fill up the Bowl, 1864 an anti Lincoln Civil War song sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", adding a next to final stanza adapted from a William Jennings Bryan campaign song, When Bryan Fills the Chair.

(Note: The 'mixing bowl' is the Franconia-Springfield interchange on the Capital Beltway around Washington, DC. The first allusion is certainly not meant to confer the gravity of the former President on the current occupant of that office! But then, we hold these truths to be self evident!)

Bushie Junior, what yer 'bout?
Hurrah! hurrah!
Stop this war: for it's all played out--
Hurrah! hurrah!
Bushie Junior, what yer 'bout?
Stop this war: it's all played out!
We'll all drink stone blind--
Johnny, fill up the bowl.

The Iranian uranium now is passed,
Hurrah! hurrah!
The Iranian uranium now is passed,
Hurrah! hurrah!
The Iranian uranium now is passed,
And Israel'be blasted all that fast;
Then we'll all drink stone blind--
Johnny, fill up the bowl.

Dollar it now is coming down--
Hurrah! hurrah!
Dollar it now is coming down--
Hurrah! hurrah!
Dollar it now is coming down;
For they have run it in the ground:
So we'll all drink stone blind--
Johnny, fill up the bowl.

His group of close advisers
Tells Bushie when to dodge,
All under the direction,
Of Cheney's pugilist's barrage
Oh shades of Thomas Jefferson,
Of Kennedy and of Truman!!!
Bushie's Daddy's Cabinet,
Must cause you grief and ruin!

They've taken the law into their hands

Forsaken the history of this great land

Where once liberty ruled every man

Corrupted power with their plans

Oh ghastly shades of Socrates,
Of Locke and of Mann!
Bushie's Daddy's Cabinet,
Must dampen your elan!

An election's coming now!

Hurrah! Hurrah!

We'll have our voting booth

Hurrah! Hurrah!

And if you think that we won't win,

Just wait and see the cold hard truth!

Oh! We'll all feel fine once in control

Bushie head out the mixing bowl!