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© 2005 W.A. Kostelec
Storyteller I
I’m carrying the national debt
Sinking deeper into the deficit
My children got their own load too
Trying to find a good job something to do
Can’t shake it, it just sticks like glue
Got a bad case of that deficit flu
They gave me $400 back last year
I’ll be paying for it for 400 years
President says I should be glad
Most expensive refund that I’ve ever had
I guess the rich folks ain’t raising any flack
They could have bought my house with what they got back
All them business suits shining in the sun
In the glory days of businessman fun
Got their hummers all polished on the street
They got their man walking that White House beat
As for me I’m here nervous and blue
Got a bad case of that deficit flu
I always try to pay as I go
Cut up my credit cards a long time ago
Got a Toyota with 200 thousand miles
Guess I’ll be driving it a long long while
I can be thrifty and frugal, honest and true
That won’t help at all when that deficit comes due
I’m carrying the national debt
Sinking deeper into the deficit
My children got their own load too
Trying to find a good job something to do
Can’t shake it, it just sticks like blue
Got a bad case of that deficit flu
It’s not my own debt that makes my feel so blue
I got a bad case of that big tax cut deficit flu.
