The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
    Richard Day's picture

    Hats Off To DonDi And Here's To Marshall Tucker

    Gonna take a freight train,
    Down at the station,
    Lord, I don't care where it goes.

    Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain,
    But gonna jump off nobody gonna know.

    Can't you see, whoo Can't you see,
    What that party, Lord, she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, Can't you see,
    Ah what that party, she been doing to me.

    The repubs, my old party lord

    they just dug us a great big hole,
    I'm fallin in and I just gonna  die.

    We had won it all, it's a mean ol' party, Lord,
    Now we got to say good by.

    Can't you see, Whoo, Can't you see,
    What that party, Lord, she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, Can't you see,
    ah what that party, she been doing to me.

    I'm gonna quit that ticket now, as far as I can see,
    Ain't a never coming back.
    Got me a south bound, all the way to
    Georgia,
    now,
    Where segregation and hurtin the poor is still the rage.

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party's been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party's been doing to me.

     

    W promised me low taxes lord

    They promised me my freedom

    From rules and regulations

    They promised me freedom to go to work

    They promised me all the success

    The riches would trickle down

    But the rich got all the riches

    And unemployment is all I found

     

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party, she been doing to me.

     

    Health care is over the roof

    I'm on the hoof

    There aint no car I can afford

    The mortgage is all behind

    And the bank aint being kind

    Give that party all that I got

    What I ever got was naught

     

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party, she been doing to me.

     

    Republicans were all the rage

    Delay and Army and w

    They were gonna turn a

    Brand new page

    Kill all the commie arab bastards

    Turned out to be a canard

    They just lined their own pockets

    Left me without a back yard

     

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party, she been doing to me.

     

    We now have no further hope

    Of stopping the socialists

    No hope of stopping minorities

    From takin this whole country

    I am now in the minority

    And I am employment free

    Welfare is my only hope

    I really have lost rationality

     

    Gonna take a freight train,
    Down at the station,
    Lord, I don't care where it goes.

    Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain,
    But gonna jump off nobody gonna know.

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party, she been doing to me.


    I now have nowhere to go

    The socialists now want all my money

    I aint got none to give em

    I'll just buy numbers for the lottery

    I aint got no hopes and no dreams

    The country I was promised

    Is floatin down that old stream

    The repubs promised so much

    And they just ran out of steam

     

    Can't you see, Lord, Can't you see,
    What that party she been doing to me.
    Can't you see, can't you see,
    What that party, she been doing to me.