Nuthin' But a Leech Part Two
Nuthin' But A Leech
(Part Two)
By Roy Merritt
But they must be on to somethin’
They sure got you people pegged
And will rob you fools completely blind
As easily as pullin' your leg
And no telling if this pacifist
Who told us “I really do like war”
Doesn’t start sending your sons and daughters
To fall on foreign shores
So maybe gators isn’t what we see
As they lounge on the Potomac’s beach
Perhaps we’d be better served
To call 'em nuthin' but a leech
And there isn’t one among you
Could not make me to understand
Just how upset you were
The president was a colored man
And how the idea of a woman
Occupying the West Wing
Was somehow defying your God
And absolutely insane
So maybe gators isn’t what we see
As they lounge on the Potomac’s beach
Perhaps we’d be better served
To call 'em nuthin' but a leech
So spare me all this nonsense
of draining that swamp of gators
Of running out the special interest
Of firing all these satyrs
If you were slaves in antebellum
In my native south
You’d be the favored slaves
To work up at the house
So maybe gators isn’t what we see
As they lounge on the Potomac’s beach
Perhaps we’d be better served
To call 'em nuthin' but a leech
And don’t be surprised
That before these villains are through
They’ll bring some inconvenience
Or worse grief to you
But don’t expect you can go in the street
To exercise your freedom to impugn
Cos’ you’ll be labeled a terrorist
And send off to your doom
So maybe gators isn’t what we see
As they lounge on the Potomac’s beach
Perhaps we’d be better served
To call 'em nuthin' but a leech
Each and everyone of them
Nuthin' but a leech
Copyright © Roy Merritt | Year Posted 2016
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