National Ransom

Runnin' pell mell and harum scarum

Runnin' as hot as

They do or dare

Stick out your tongue and

Drink down all the venom

Off cut throat cuthbert

And Millicent St. Cyr

From the real old Macau

To the new False Americas

In the liberated territories

Unusual suspects shake down

Shake down shake down

Various dubious characters

Mother's in the kitchen

Pickin' bones for breakfast

Boilin' them down by

The bushel and the score

Pull out your thumb and

Count what's left on your fist

There's a wolf at the window

With a ravenin' maw

Did you find how to lie

Did you find out how to cheat

The elite bleat their obsolete

So are your prospects

Exact perfect object

Now if you'd only genuflect

They're runnin' wild just like some

Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

Payin' off the National Ransom

Woe betide all this hocus pocus

They're runnin' us ragged

At their first attempt

Around the time the killin'

Stopped on Wall St.

You couldn't hold me baby

With anythin' but contempt

Letters peal slowly from our speech

The claxton attempts to preach

Stretchin' out for stars

Still out of reach

Drownin' flailin' outside

Someone's wailin'

They're runnin' wild just like some

Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

Payin' off the National Ransom

They're runnin' wild just like some

Childish tantrum

Meanwhile we're workin' every day

Payin' off the National Ransom