Allen Ginsberg Ballad Of The Skeletons Lyrics

Ballad Of The Skeletons Lyrics

Said the Presidential Skeleton
I won't sign the bill
Said the Speaker
skeleton
Yes you will

Said the Representative Skeleton
I
object
Said the Supreme Court skeleton
Whaddya expect

Said the
Miltary skeleton
Buy Star Bombs
Said the Upperclass Skeleton
Starve
unmarried moms

Said the Yahoo Skeleton
Stop dirty art
Said the
Right Wing skeleton
Forget about yr heart

Said the Gnostic
Skeleton
The Human Form's divine
Said the Moral Majority skeleton
No
it's not it's mine

Said the Buddha Skeleton
Compassion is
wealth
Said the Corporate skeleton
It's bad for your health

Said
the Old Christ skeleton
Care for the Poor
Said the Son of God
skeleton
AIDS needs cure

Said the Homophobe skeleton
Gay folk
suck
Said the Heritage Policy skeleton
Blacks're outa luck

Said
the Macho skeleton
Women in their place
Said the Fundamentalist
skeleton
Increase human race

Said the Right-to-Life
skeleton
Foetus has a soul
Said Pro Choice skeleton
Shove it up your
hole

Said the Downsized skeleton
Robots got my job
Said the
Tough-on-Crime skeleton
Tear gas the mob

Said the Governor
skeleton
Cut school lunch
Said the Mayor skeleton
Eat the budget
crunch

Said the Neo Conservative skeleton
Homeless off the
street!
Said the Free Market skeleton
Use 'em up for meat

Said the
Think Tank skeleton
Free Market's the way
Said the Saving & Loan
skeleton
Make the State pay

Said the Chrysler skeleton
Pay for you
& me
Said the Nuke Power skeleton
& me & me & me

Said the Ecologic
skeleton
Keep Skies blue
Said the Multinational skeleton
What's it
worth to you?

Said the NAFTA skeleton
Get rich, Free Trade,
Said
the Maquiladora skeleton
Sweat shops, low paid

Said the rich GATT
skeleton
One world, high tech
Said the Underclass skeleton
Get it in
the neck

Said the World Bank skeleton
Cut down your trees
Said the
I.M.F. skeleton
Buy American cheese

Said the Underdeveloped
skeleton
We want rice
Said Developed Nations' skeleton
Sell your bones
for dice

Said the Ayatollah skeleton
Die writer die
Said Joe
Stalin's skeleton
That's no lie

Said the Middle Kingdom
skeleton
We swallowed Tibet
Said the Dalai Lama skeleton
Indigestion's
whatcha get


Said the World Chorus skeleton
That's their
fate
Said the U.S.A. skeleton
Gotta save Kuwait

Said the
Petrochemical skeleton
Roar Bombers roar!
Said the Psychedelic
skeleton
Smoke a dinosaur

Said Nancy's skeleton
Just say
No
Said the Rasta skeleton
Blow Nancy Blow

Said Demagogue
skeleton
Don't smoke Pot
Said Alcoholic skeleton
Let your liver
rot

Said the Junkie skeleton
Can't we get a fix?
Said the Big
Brother skeleton
Jail the dirty pricks

Said the Mirror
skeleton
Hey good looking
Said the Electric Chair skeleton
Hey what's
cooking?

Said the Talkshow skeleton
Fuck you in the face
Said the
Family Values skeleton
My family values mace

Said the NY Times
skeleton
That's not fit to print
Said the CIA skeleton
Cantcha take a
hint?

Said the Network skeleton
Believe my lies
Said the
Advertising skeleton
Don't get wise!

Said the Media
skeleton
Believe you me
Said the Couch-potato skeleton
What me
worry?

Said the TV skeleton
Eat sound bites
Said the Newscast
skeleton
That's all Goodnight