Name: Taxes
Duration: 4 min 42 s
Channel: Richard Aberdeen
Description: Track 4 HOMELESS IN AMERICA: Twenty-One Songs of Social Conscience for the 21st Century

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Track 4 HOMELESS IN AMERICA: Twenty-One Songs of Social Conscience for the 21st Century

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Nashville Session Players

Top Nashville musicians and vocalists perform 21 songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-

Top Nashville musicians and session vocalists perform songs of political and social content not typically allowed on mainstream radio; issues addressed include anti-war, poverty, health, taxation, immigration, environmental, social security privatization, gun control, negative effects of neo-con and religious 'right' agendas, etc. Genres include country, blues, rock, folk, R&B soul, pop, Native USA, bluegrass, Americana, Southern Rock, Rock-a-Billy and alternative.

Song Info

Genre

Podcasts • Comedy - Political Humor

Charts

Peak #67

Peak in subgenre #7

Author

Richard Aberdeen

Rights

2005 Freedom Tracks Music

Uploaded

August 28, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:42

Lyrics

TAXES

 Sing a song of taxes
 Workin'-class cancer sore
 Tea in Boston harbor
 An' revolutionary war
 Of givin' to the rich
 And takin' from the poor
 Sing a song of taxes
 Let's even up the score

 Sing a song of taxes
 In the presidential pew
 Throw in greased senators an'
 Corrupt congressmen in the brew
 Add a depraved governor
 The education regency board
 A few greedy city council members
 And Attila the Hun's great horde

 Let's all tax the trucker
 For drivin' down the road
 And tax the company janitor
 For cleanin' the commode
 Put a levy on the mechanic
 For changin' auto oil
 Don't forget the tired farmer
 For turnin' up the soil

 Tax the college student
 For learnin' how to think
 And tax the hotel maid
 For scrubbin' out the sink
 Don't overlook the waitress
 For servin' up the food
 And tax the exotic lady
 For dancin' in the nude

 Let's tax the faithful mother
 For bringin' up her son
 And tax our country's children
 For chewin' bubble gum
 Put a tax on entertainment
 Cigarettes and the liquor store
 Raise sales tax, shift the burden
 To the homeless and the poor

 Sing a song of taxes
 Fight illegal wars for oil
 Slash aid for the veterans
 Pig out on the corporate spoil
 Privatize social security
 Fill the purse of the Wall Street whore
 Reduce firefighters, police and
 The planet's health just ignore

 Build some MX-missiles
 And a B-51 or two
 Ring the world with laser weapons
 Paint 'em all red, white and blue
 Print up some cardboard money
 Who cares if we all go broke?
 Who will notice it's our fault
 When the planet goes up in smoke?

 Supply-side neo-conmen
 With a trillion dollar ripoff scam
 Give the poor half a cup of water
 And the rich Grand Cooley Dam
 Borrow from our children's future
 On the backs of the workin'-class
 Buy the wealthy a few more yachts
 While the rest take it in the ass

 Tax us up every orifice
 Keep givin' us the screw
 An', next time the vote comes 'round
 Find out what the people can do
 Run your pork fat butts outta office
 Put your family on the welfare line
 You'll be in some federal hole
 Bottoms up, doin' hard rock time

 Sing a song of taxes
 At the U.S. National Bank
 Open up the vaults
 Clean out the septic tank
 Cry out from the gutter
 Beat on your garbage can
 If there's a God in heaven up above
 Save us all from the taxman !

 Sing a song of taxes
 Workin'-class cancer sore
 Tea in Boston harbor
 An' revolutionary war
 Of givin' to the rich
 And takin' from the poor
 WE'RE ALL MAD AS HELL
 AND WE AIN'T GONNA TAKE NO MORE !