Tell the Truth (w/m Jim Proctor)’
Brother can you spare a lie?
Running rare as dimes these days
Oval Office piles them high
Need them for their warring ways
Fighting takes a lot of dough
Weapons of deception too
Turn our conscience white as snow
Turn the other black and blue
(Refrain) I want a President who tells the truth
I want a President who tells the truth
I want a President who tells the truth
I want a President…
Red or yellow, left or right
Lies and money run both ways
Tell me you know day from night
Tell you I know heat from haze
Bet you’ll paint the White House gray
Complications intervene
You and wealth in disarray
Now we know that gray is green
(Refrain)
Sister can you spare a hand?
Runnin’ rare as hope these days
We don’t see no Promised Land
But can we see us through this maze?
Let’s go visit Uncle Sam
Poor old guy he’s so confused
Let the lion meet the lamb
Will doublethink be disabused?
(Refrain)
(added 20 years later)
The orange-headed king is back
His fountain of post truth a flood
But don’t go waging war with facts
Our country’s lost a lot of blood
Let’s you and I live larger truths
I’ll listen when I’m sure you’re wrong
Been lying leaders since our youth
This likely our forever song
(Refrain)
Featured image: Trump posters, first Presidential campaign, Portland OR