"The Plutocrats Are Coming To Town" (A Christmas Song)

THE PLUTOCRATS ARE COMING TO TOWN
(to the tune of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”)


1.
You’d better watch out - better gird up your loins,
Hide your children and bury your coins,
‘Cause the plutocrats are coming to town.

2.
They’re raping the land, raping the skies,
Raping our kids with their poisonous lies.
The plutocrats are coming to town.

FIRST REFRAIN:
They’ll bleed you when you’re sleeping. They’re always on the take.
They’ll kill you if you know too much. So PLAY DUMB, for goodness sake.

3.
They’ll make you their eunuch, make you their slave,
So you’ll shop till you drop and slave to your grave.
The plutocrats are coming to town.

SECOND REFRAIN:
The kids in Girl & Boy Land are in form some alienation.
They’re gonna build a toyland town and call it “Civilization.”

4.
But we can stop these demons. We can start a crusade.
Will you stand with me at the barricade?
‘Cause the plutocrats are coming to town.

THIRD REFRAIN:
They inherited their power, through accident of birth.
Yet they preach “The Work Ethic” in their crystal tower,
while plundering the Earth.

(repeat first stanza)



Words by Galen Green c 1989

Excerpted here from The Toolmaker’s Other Son
(a memoir-in-progress)
Rough draft Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007
By Galen Green; All Rights Reserved