Robin and Linda Williams - The Flimflam Blues

THE FLIMFLAM BLUES
Robin and Linda Williams
Songs For Dixie (BMI)

You want to wreck the whole shooting match
So, you reach down in your garbage bags
And pull out your fake facts
And broadcast your Big Lie
But your flimflam fiddle-de-dee
And your attacks on democracy
Have got the people on the street
Opening their eyes
The ship of state don't want you on the cruise
'Cause you're singing the Flimflam Blues

CHORUS:
If up is down, if right is left
If the reader’s blind, if the singer’s deaf
And the whole ball of wax just rolls off 'round the bend
And mother wit gets hijacked, five will get you ten
You’re singing The Flimflam Blues again

The bedrock of your life's been built
On chaos and a dollar bill
Now you're scared that people will
Get hip to what you are
And you don't know who can be trusted
Who'll turn on you and get you busted
By speaking truth and seeking justice
And shred your victim card
Every mother's son has heard the news
You're just singing the Flimflam Blues

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BRIDGE:
You want to play fast but you can't keep time
You like to sing loud but your words don't rhyme
And your harmonizing's proving that
You're always tuned a half step flat


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