Giving The Bird *
Sung to Irving Berlin's tune "Doin' What come Natur'lly"

Crooks like DeLay who choose to say
   such mean things about judges
May later find they're in a bind –
   some judges may hold grudges.

It seems absurd to give the bird
   when you're in legal trouble.
Your fate could be long-time-no-see
   like Junior Bush's Hubble.

You don't have to know how to write or read
   to gerrymander districts for the votes you'll need,
Or butter up a Poppy Bush judiciary
   when your competition's only Gore or Kerry.
That comes easily.

The Congressman from Texas
   may wish that he'd abstained
From any threat of hexes
   as soon as he's arraigned.

Who's to say that Tom DeLay
   will ever learn his lesson?
Cupidity, stupidity – monkey gene heredity.

* The New York Times - 4/5/05
Editorial - "Attacking A Free Judiciary"

Music & Original Lyric by Irving Berlin
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
4/5/05

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