Song Description

Election year

Lyrics

Election Year
Written by Dan Mahoney

The Dust devil is dancing on a wind that?s blowing west
he?s talking just like Texas with Kentucky on his breath.
He hangs around the pulp wood town till just this side of jail
keeps a change of costume along the trail.

Children of the privileged and the knights in shining shoes
reaping their advantage on the don?t know what to dos.
Experts in the ordinary grind along the race
squatting on a screaming rock that?s hurtling through space.


Comanchero whiskey and the Mai Kong delta blues
Stories Full of cigarettes and drunk on stolen booze
Election year comes screaming like a fifty dollar ford
But it?s only raining water boys so do not curse the lord.

I have lived your pesos and your pats upon the back.
Pretty pawn shop pistol presentations of the facts.
I?ve seen piles of burning crutches and the plaques upon the land
and people setting watches by the governments of man.

Comanchero whiskey and the Mai Kong delta blues
stories Full of cigarettes and drunk on stolen booze.
Election year comes screaming like a fifty dollar ford
but it?s only raining water boys so do not curse the lord.

Catch phrases and buzz words and its all English to me
You?ve got a black belt in Bolshevik and Dale Carnage.
Blamed it on the matches when you built the powder keg
insisting that a good long walk will fix my broken leg.s

Comanchero whiskey and the Mai Kong delta blues
stories full of cigarettes and drunk on stolen booze.
Election year comes screaming like a fifty dollar ford
but it?s only raining water boys so do not curse the lord.