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Oligarchy Blues

by Wild Earp

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All the criminals are callin' the shots
Somehow let em all get up to the top
They’re livin' high on the hog, spending all your hard earned pay
Now they're whistling Dixie all the zippity doodah day.

They’re grifters and they’ll stiff you, now they’re callin the shots
Somehow we let em all get up to the top
They’re runnin’ their racket from the highest tax bracket now
Man, I'd tell you it’s a free for all, but nothing's free for all, no how

Snake oil salesman are callin' the shots
Somehow we let em slither up to the top
Well, they’ll wrap themselves around you and they’ll give your pocketbook a squeeze.
Ain’t nothin to the stuff
And now you’re trying to live on guarantees

If you don’t like my singing if you don’t like my song
Give it a couple years I’m sure you’ll then sing along
When all your friends are dead and your mama's been throwed in jail
You know a presidential pardon sure as hell beats savin' up for bail

This song ain’t original, can’t call it my own
I stole it from the text on the Rosetta Stone
All the faces may change but it’s always been the same old game
Now don’t give any money cause I’ll probably end up doin the same.

All the criminals are callin' the shots
Somehow let em all get up to the top
They’re livin’ high on the hog spending all your hard earned pay

Now they’ll rob you on the highway and they’ll call it a tax
They don’t even bother to cover their tracks
I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re holdin’ the stacks
Oh no
It’s just a little known secret that everybody already seems to know.

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released October 16, 2020
Words, Melody, and Performance by Wild Earp
℗ 2020 Western Myth Records

Recorded at Jamdek Studio
Mastered by Alex DeYoung

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