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Thread #33458   Message #446704
Posted By: Louie Roy
22-Apr-01 - 02:10 PM
Thread Name: Scotty the Drifter and FDR songs
Subject: ADD: Roosevelt (FDR)^^
Alice I believe this song was written between April 1945 when FDR died and before 1946 because I learned it in 1946

ROOSEVELT
A stranger stood at the gates of hell
The devil himself answered the bell
He looked him over from head to toe
And said my friend I'd like to know
What you have done in the line of sin
That entitles you to come within
Then Franklin D with his usual guile
Stepped forth and flashed his toothy smile
And said when I took over in 33
A nation's faith was placed in me
I promised this and I promised that
And calmed them down with a fireside chat
I spent their money on fishing trips
And fished from the deck of their Battleships
I gave them jobs on the WPA
And raised their taxes and took it away
I raised their wages and closed their shops
I killed their pigs and I burned their crops
I double crossed both old and young
And still the fools my praise they sung
I brought back beer and what do you think
I taxed it so high they couldn't drink
I furnished money with Government loans
And when they missed their payment I took their homes
When I wanted to punish the folks you know
I put Eleanor on the Radio
I paid them to let their farms lie still
And imported farm stuff from Brazil
I curtailed crops when I felt real mean
And shipped in corn from Argentine
And when they'd they start to worry stew and fret
I'd get to chanting the alphabet
With the AAA and the NRB
The WPA and the CCC'S
With this many units I'd get their goat
But still I crammed it down their throat
My workers worked with the speed of snails
While the tax payers chewed their fingernails
When the organizer needed dough
I closed up plants for the CIO
I ruined jobs and I ruined health
And put the screw on the richmans wealth
And some who couldn't stand the gaff
Would call on me and how I'd laugh
When things got to strong on certain things
I'd pack and head for Old Warm Springs
I ruined the country their homes and then
I placed the blame on 9 old men
I gave them war in 41
And sent to foreign soils our native sons
And the Jap Emperor had to go
For I promised victory in Tokyo
And Nazi Hitler I had to skin
For I also promised victory in Berlin
But the maker called before these deeds could be done
And these missions will be completed by another son
Now Franklin talked both long and loud
And the devil stood and his head was bowed
At last he said lets make it clear
You'll have to move on you can't stay here
For once you mingle with the mob
I'd have to hunt myself another job ^^

I hope this is what you were looking for and I copied it from memory. Louie Roy