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To Symphony No. 9 in D Minor,
Op. 125 - Finale
(Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, based on "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller)

Parody Lyrics by Marcy Shaffer

We are POTUS.*
[*President Of The United States]
If you quote us:
We will make your life a hell.
Just a thought, oh,
Here's our motto:
"YOU DON'T ASK AND WE DON'T TELL."
Secret beatings.
secret retreatings.
Secret deletings.
we can mask.
Of this nation's violations:
We won't tell and you won't ask.
At constraining reins on our reigning,
And at explaining, we rebel.
We can track mail.
also blackmail.
You don't ask and we won't tell!
 
We're the Senate.
Now and then it
Serves to lob an angry shell.
But our raging
Is just staging.
We don't ask and you don't tell.
Flags on fire.
gags on desire.
Quags without mire.
there we bask.
No revamping.
Rubber-stamping!
You won't tell so we won't ask.
Nodding and winking.
that is our thinking.
Whatever's stinking?
we won't smell.
Oversight, it's over.
Right!
It's:
We don't ask and you don't tell.
 
We're of FISA.*
[*Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]

We comprise a
Court support so you can sell
Constitution
Dissolution.
We don't ask and you don't tell.
Evildoers
deceive interviewers.
Leave the pursuers
to their task!
Being Brutus
Doesn't suit us.
You won't tell so we don't ask.
Unordained spying.
scatterbrained prying.
Uncontained lying.
we won't quell.
Just assure us you'll secure us.
We won't ask what you won't tell.
 
We're the press
We must confess
We've fallen victim to your spell.
First you dared so.
then you scared, so
We don't ask and you don't tell.
Why despoil wilderness royal
Drilling for oil in Alask-
A.
What's the hitch here?
Who gets rich here?
You won't tell so we don't ask.
Woe we can't promise
more Helen Thomas
Throwing a bomb.
This could compel:
A renowned sound cut
we could pound BUT
We won't ask and you won't tell.
 
[ORCHESTRAL INTERLUDE]
 
We're your "folks."
The ones you coax
To trust you.
like in George Orwell.
Rarely vetting.
now regretting.
We don't ask and you don't tell.
Why oh why would you try to hide
What should be outside?
not in some cask?
Why incitements?
Why indictments?
You don't tell and we don't ask.
What's your handy plan for Iran?
Afghanistan, can that land yet gel?
We'll have earned
all you have burned.
If we don't wake and make you tell.
Will we ask
until you tell?
 
ANGIE JARÉE - lead vocal; background vocals
Janis Liebhart - lead vocal; background vocals
Guy Maeda - lead vocal; background vocals
Victor Zharkov - lead vocal; background vocals
Greg Hilfman - music director

 

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