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Show Blame the Mayor If you're "stuck up" with a gun Blame the Mayor! If the street cars do not run, Blame the Mayor! If your sewer is not laid, If your taxes are not paid, If the trees give off no shade, Blame the Mayor! If you're sore at all mankind, Blame the Mayor! If your pants are patched behind, Blame the Mayor! I If the motorists all speed And no traffic sins they heed Wrecking humans 'till they bleed-Blame bleed-Blame the Mayor! - - ' 7 1 If the street lamps do not light, Blame the Mayor! If the crossings are a fright, Blame the Mayor! If the water mains run dry, Don't give forth a lusty cry-Step cry-Step right up and black the eye Of the Mayor! If the weeds grow in your lawn, Elame the Mayor! If your savings cash is gone, Elame the Mayor! If your Jersey cow dries up, If you lose your pointer pup, Do not drop tears in a cup-Blame cup-Blame the Mayor! If we never bridge the bay, Blame the Mayor! If it rains 'most ev'ry day, Elame the Mayor! If your false teeth break in two So that food you cannot chew, There is just one thing to do-Blame do-Blame the Mayor! If your hens refuse to lay, Blame the Mayor! If you fail to draw your pay, If the streets all need new pave, If your soul you cannot save, Do not spout and rant and rave Blame the Mayor! If in gratitude you lack, Blame the Mayor! And your civic duties slack, Blame the Mayor! And if your city happens to rare A fame both wide and great; Equaled nowhere in no state BLAME THE MAYOR ! ! By Herb B. Gee, Rpview In the Oklahoma Municipal Review |