Sixteen Trillion Going On Seventeen
Our debt’s sixteen trillion going on seventeen
Obama it’s time to think
Better beware coz your new health care
Is putting us on the brink
Our debt’s sixteen trillion going on seventeen
No reading between the lines
We are indebted and surely headed
For a dreadful decline
Totally unprepared are you,
To cut government spending
You’re unfair and narcissistic
With you there’s no happy ending
You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do
But seventeen trillion going on eighteen
Is more your cup of brew
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I owe sixteen trillion going on seventeen
I know that I’m naïve
Cronies I meet tell me I’m sweet
And willingly we deceive
I owe sixteen trillion going on seventeen
Innocent of why that rose
I think it was Bush giving me dirty looks
My how my nose grows
Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of reality
Crafty and sly and scared am I
If they learn the truth about me
I need someone older and wiser
But don’t tell me what to do
Coz seventeen trillion going on eighteen
Is in store for all of you.
A little parody where 'face the music' meets 'The Sound of Music'
Copyright © David Fisher | Year Posted 2013
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