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Song for Wall Street

Let the mighty Phillip Morris cough up a black lung While they’re cutting out the cancer from his throat, lips and tongue. Let Dubya tour maquilas to see how shit gets made; Leave his ass at the border to ply his free trade. Let McGregor stitch baseballs for two bucks a day; They say down in Haiti that goes a long way.

Refrain: And let Exxon burn, Coca Cola run dry; Let the Waltons eat scraps and the Hiltons scrape by; Let Fannie Mae grovel while Freddie shines shoes, Let Murdoch sift garbage and Trump sing the blues.

Print Victoria’s secret all across the front pages; Let her top super models draw working man’s wages. Give Wolfowitz water from the bottom of wells; Let him phone the World Bank when his abdomen swells. Let’s do Halliburton as they once did Bastille; Let the chairman eat shit when he needs a hot meal.

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Send the neocons east to sew swooshes on shoes; We’ll check in once a year for the fast-breaking news. Let’s sell Pfizer’s kidney so that we can buy our pills; Eli Lilly will pay all his hospital bills. Let the Hersheys pick cacao with twelve-year-old slaves; When they’re too tired to work let them dig their own graves.

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Let the water wash down Wall Street, Let white collars get wet, Let the bankers all go swimming in a sea of bad debt; We can divy up their billions while they’re waiting for the boats, Our love will trickle down to them as long as money floats; Let them learn to tread water ‘till the day FEMA arrives, That ought to give them time enough to organize their lives.

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