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'' | Running pell-mell and harum-scarum<br> | ||
Running as hot as they do or dare<br> | |||
Stick out your tongue<br> | |||
And drink down all the venom<br> | |||
From Cut-Throat Cuthbert<br> | |||
And Millicent St. Cyr<br> | |||
<br> | |||
From the real old Macau<br> | |||
To the new False Americas<br> | |||
In the liberated territories<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Unusual suspects shake down, shake down, shake down various dubious characters<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Mother’s in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast<br> | |||
Boiling them down by the bushel and the score<br> | |||
Pull out your thumb and count what’s left of your fist<br> | |||
There’s a wolf at the window with ravening maw<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Did you find how to lie?<br> | |||
Did you find out just how to cheat?<br> | |||
The elite bleat, their obsolete<br> | |||
But are your prospects?<br> | |||
Exact, perfect object<br> | |||
Now, if you’d only genuflect<br> | |||
<br> | |||
They’re running wild<br> | |||
Just like some childish tantrum<br> | |||
Meanwhile we’re working every day<br> | |||
Paying off the National Ransom<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Woe betide all this hocus-pocus<br> | |||
They’re running us ragged at their first attempt<br> | |||
Around the time the killing stopped on Wall St.<br> | |||
You couldn’t hold me, baby with anything but contempt<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Letters peal slowly from our speech<br> | |||
The claxton attempts to preach<br> | |||
Stretching for stars still out of reach<br> | |||
<br> | |||
Drowning<br> | |||
Flailing<br> | |||
Outside someone’s wailing<br> | |||
<br> | |||
They’re running wild<br> | |||
Just like some childish tantrum<br> | |||
Meanwhile we’re working every day<br> | |||
Paying off the National Ransom<br> | |||
<br> | |||
''1929 to the Present Day''<br> | |||
Latest revision as of 21:06, 18 August 2010
National Ransom (song)
Running pell-mell and harum-scarum
Running as hot as they do or dare
Stick out your tongue
And drink down all the venom
From Cut-Throat Cuthbert
And Millicent St. Cyr
From the real old Macau
To the new False Americas
In the liberated territories
Unusual suspects shake down, shake down, shake down various dubious characters
Mother’s in the kitchen picking bones for breakfast
Boiling them down by the bushel and the score
Pull out your thumb and count what’s left of your fist
There’s a wolf at the window with ravening maw
Did you find how to lie?
Did you find out just how to cheat?
The elite bleat, their obsolete
But are your prospects?
Exact, perfect object
Now, if you’d only genuflect
They’re running wild
Just like some childish tantrum
Meanwhile we’re working every day
Paying off the National Ransom
Woe betide all this hocus-pocus
They’re running us ragged at their first attempt
Around the time the killing stopped on Wall St.
You couldn’t hold me, baby with anything but contempt
Letters peal slowly from our speech
The claxton attempts to preach
Stretching for stars still out of reach
Drowning
Flailing
Outside someone’s wailing
They’re running wild
Just like some childish tantrum
Meanwhile we’re working every day
Paying off the National Ransom
1929 to the Present Day
