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Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old

Regular people, just plain working folks Always stood out in my eyes. I scorn all those people who drink wine instead Of eating Frito pies.

Calvin Trillin

August 12, 2004

Regular people, just plain working folks Always stood out in my eyes. I scorn all those people who drink wine instead Of eating Frito pies.

Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s a regular Joe– Bandar eats grits and he hunts. Ol’ Bandar digs NASCAR and country and snuff, And that’s why I do what he wants.

Bridge (sung with gusto): That Kenny Boy Lay was the salt of the earth. Too bad he took the fall. I like CEOs, they’re all common as dirt. I liked Kenny Boy best of all.

It’s plain folks with money this country’s about. Not Hollywood, not all that smut. To people in bluejeans with millions I pledge Your taxes will be cut.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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