Brush up your Chinese.
You'll find we can't live without.
Brush up your Chinese.
Goodbye to born-again clout.
Your last name will precede your first name.
Your first name will follow your last.
Yet what seems to appeal to Bush George the most
Are the perks that accrue to the governing caste.
Brush up your Chinese.
Plant to cook in, not take out.

Brush up your Chinese.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Brush up your Chinese.
Bush George is selling us out.
He sells bonds to China to finance his debt
And their army that's bigger than he'll let ours get.
The next thing you know he'll have moved to Shanghai
And be telling us all to cook Fun Tsen Tsu Pai.
Brush up your Chinese.
There'll be no take-out.

Brush up your Chinese.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
Brush up your Chinese.
Bush George may think he'll have the clout
To privatize Social Security there.
With communists? Guess what! He won't have a prayer.
And before you know it he'll be stuck in Peking
Instructing us all to cook Sun Sih Tsai Shing.
Brush up your Chinese.
There'll be no take-out.

Brush up your Chinese.
Beyond a reasonable doubt
Brush up your Chinese.
Bush George has brought it about.
He's destroyed our economy with so little fuss,
China will soon be outsourcing to us,
While Bush George cuts brush in the woods of Szechuan
And sends back advice for preparing Won Ton.
Brush up your Chinese.
There'll be no take-out.

Music by Cole Porter
Original Lyric by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
12/17/04

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To 'A Stephrn Sondheim Songbook'