We have all heard the American folk song ‘Shortnin’ Bread:
“Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’, shortnin’, mama’s little baby loves shortnin’ bread!”
Now the stage is set so on to the parody.
The country’s economy is in big trouble and unless the president and Washington lawmakers can reach an agreement concerning national debt ceiling, it will only get worse. But all is not lost! If the economy tanks completely the government will have to take care of us! Here’s where a classic folk song comes into play. It is set to the tune of Shortnin’ Bread and it goes something like this…actually, it goes exactly like this…
Gub’mint Cheese
Tell all your chillun’, run tell your mama,
For what’s coming up, we’ll have to thank Obama!
The economy is bad, we’re down on our knees,
And we’ll soon be living on gub’mint cheese!
All the little chillum eatin’ gub’mint, gub’mint,
All the little chillum eatin’ gub’mint cheese!
The Democrats, they ain’t learned yet,
You just can’t spend your way out of debt,
We’ve begged them to stop,
Oh, please, please, please!
Or we’ll soon be living on gub’mint cheese!
Republicans and Democrats,
Eatin’ that, eatin that,
Tea Party members eaitn’ gub’mint cheese!
Can’t settle on a budget, the dollar is down,
And there just ain’t no jobs to be found!
We’ve got more trouble than a dog’s got fleas,
And we’ll soon be living on gub’mint cheese!
We’ll all be eatin’ that, gub’mint, gub’mint,
Getting constipated on gub’mint cheese!
Just a side note, I have eaten gub’mint cheese. It’s not so bad if you don’t mind the fact that it will not melt even when exposed to high temperatures and will back you up like Ann Street at 5 pm. I just don’t want it to be the main part of my diet!
