Impeachment Blues
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I wanna tell you ’bout a woman
Sweet Anerica was her name
And man she was so beautiful
It electrified her fame
But Lord that sweet America
As time and years went by
My baby grew so bloated
It made you wanna cry
I got the impeachment blues
I’m sure that you do too
Impeachment blues
I wonder if we’re through?
Way back in the dawn of her founding
Grown men would cry her name
They called for sweet America
For freedom, liberation, and someone else to blame
Back then she was so hopeful
Her lovers let out a moan
My baby sweet America
Let us dangle ‘neath her throne.
But time, it does its number
With age you start to crack
And everything the founders hoped for
It ain’t never comin’ back.
I got the impeachment blues
I’m sure that you do too
Impeachment blues
I wonder if we’re through?
Now most folk loved George Washington
Some deified his name
And those who love Donald Trump
Think Washinton is lame.
The man himself he boasts it
Claims he’s the greatest there ever was
Yet Washington loved his country
While Trump seeks just applause.
Some people think Trump is different
Believe him better than the rest
And the name of Thomas Jefferson
Becomes part of our modern mess.
Today it’s all about lyin’
‘Bout winnin’ some cruel game
And “by any means necessary”
It’s meanin’ ain’t the same.
Today’s cynicism and doubt
Our culture of mistrust
Those weird and challenging conspiracies
Are turnin’ America to dust.
Where once we loved our nation
And our people were the best
Today we hate each other
There ain’t no such thing as rest.
And down we go with sweet America
Sham hearings and trials can’t doom a crook
Cause all of us have shamed us
Former allies won’t even look
And America
Sweet America
She ain’t, she just ain’t
what she was
Ain’t what she was
I got the impeachment blues
I’m sure that you do too.
Impeachment blues
And I wonder–oh how I wonder!
I wonder if we all gonna pull through?
