All By Himself *
Sung to the tune "All by Myself"

He's so unhappy, what will he do?
He needs more somebodys to privatize, who'll
Applaud as he barks up the wrong tree –
So if you hear him starting to cry,
Social Security's why.

All by himself he touts Wall Street –
All by himself in the fight.
Prudential Funds runs a few puny ads
That tend to get lost among those ads for abs.

All by himself on the hustings
With a plan that he pulled off the shelf,
But, like a bad joke
   that will always get a cold shoulder,
It sinks like boulder,
And should have been kept to himself.

* The Washington Post - 4/18/05
Mike Allen - "Hastert Doubtful on Social Security Bill"

Music & Original Lyric by Irving Berlin
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
4/1/05

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