Goodbye Little Man

by Django Haskins

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I wrote this political fairy tale over two years ago, but recently realized I needed to update it to include more of the freshly minted felons.

Any relation to orqnge cultists is purely actual.

There's a video where you can watch the chords and learn the song here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4hQZftNtDU

lyrics

Here are updated lyrics:

Goodbye Little Man by Django Haskins 2018
There’s a little man with little hands
Living in a big white house
Nobody knows how he got there
But he’s made a mess at his big boy desk
Throwing all the grownups out
And nobody’s talking to the little man

But maybe someday soon he’ll hear a knocking on his oval room
And we can say goodbye to the little man

There’s a pretty girl from another world
Living in a golden cell
And everybody’s sorry for the pretty girl
But she made her bed, she cut her deal
She’s gotta play the cards she’s dealt
Up there in that golden cell

But maybe someday soon the lawyers will come and unlock the room
And she can say goodbye to the little man

There’s a lawyer who decided to tell the counsel all he knows
About his dirty dealings with the little man
So he copped a plea, he told his tale
Now he only wears orange clothes
Doesn’t pay working for the little man

There’s a general who nearly pulled a muscle yelling lock her up
Funny thing happened to the general
Cause if you’re too close to you know who
You’ll probably end up in cuffs
Wishing you had never met the little man

There’s a former mayor from an island where
The little man paints his name
People used to kinda like the former mayor
But he had a fall, he lost it all
Now he plays a lawyer’s game
Bluffing and a lying for the little man

Well the next in line prefers his crime wrapped up in a bible verse
Smirking and a nodding to the little man
Well he thinks he's slick but if charges stick
The little man will sell him first
No one gets to heaven with the little man

There's a turtle man who hatched a plan
To keep the liberals off the court
Nothing good to say about the turtle man
Well I'm sad to say he's had his way
Burning down the law for sport
Someday I would like to punch the turtle man

But maybe someday soon they’ll get around to locking up the main buffoon
And he can share a bunk with the little man

There’s a bully in the Kremlin laughing right into his sleeve
It was all so easy with the little man
You can fool the people all the time if you control the party line
That’s the only lesson he ever taught the little man

But maybe someday soon the lizards on the hill who play his tune
Will stand up and be washed aside down the drain with the little man, goodbye

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released September 28, 2019

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Django Haskins Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Solo project of Django Haskins (The Old Ceremony, Au Pair, International Orange, Django & the Regulars).

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