Before hearing Billy Bragg, I wrote this one last year.


1. You talk about democracy and freedom's on the way,
But you don't tell 'bout the kids that are dyin' every day.

CHORUS: You're messin' with us, Bushtail, and you don't mean a word you say.
You know chickens come home to roost and every dirty dog will have his day.

2. You can hear it on the street; you can hear it in the blues.
You can hear it almost everywhere except the evenin' news. CHORUS

3. You preach to us in the mornin' and lie to us at night.
You feed us propaganda just to try to make us fight.

2ND CHORUS: You're messin' with us, Bushtail, and you don't mean a word you say.
We put up with you for too long now while Iraqis are dyin' every day.

4. You talk about democracy, freedom and the flag.
You think you got us by the balls with the election in the bag.

3RD CHORUS: You're messin' with us, Bushtail, and you don't mean a word you say.
You've been lyin' for a long time but sometime you'll have your judgement day

5. You talk 'bout freedom while folks are dyin' every day.
You're preachin' 'bout that freedom while you steal it all away.

4TH CHORUS: You're messin' with us, Bushtail, and you don't mean a word you say.
You know chickens come home to roost and every dirty dog will have his day.

6. You try the same ol' shell game with the dictator flim-flam
You substitute a puppet for the other one, Saddam. CHORUS
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7. We thought we had a shot at the Great American Dream
But you gotta' be a rich man to ... play ball on that team. CHORUS

8. Your rakin' in the money while you let the worker go.
That's why a hundred black men are sittin' on death row. CHORUS