House Un-American Blues-Mimi

[ti:House Un-American Blues] [ar:Mimi] [al:The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]House Un-American Blues - Mimi [00:09.48]I was standing on the sidewalk had a noise in my head [00:13.66]There were loudspeakers babbling but nothing was said [00:16.41] [00:17.54]There were twenty-seven companies of female Marines [00:20.59] [00:21.72]There were presidential candidates in new Levis jeans [00:24.60] [00:26.10]It was the red white and blue planning how to endure [00:29.48] [00:30.72]The fife drum and bugle marching down on the poor [00:33.60] [00:34.66]God bless America without any doubt [00:37.60] [00:38.66]And I figured it was time to get out [00:40.98] [00:43.10]Well I have to b'lieve that in between scenes good people [00:46.78] [00:47.60]Went and got em done in the sun good people [00:50.40] [00:51.59]Tourist information said to get on the stick [00:53.60] [00:54.22]You ain't moving 'til you're grooving with a Cubana chick [00:57.91] [00:59.54]So I hopped on a plane I took a pill for my brain [01:03.23]And I discovered I was feeling all right [01:05.73] [01:07.91]When I strolled down the Prado people looked at me weird [01:11.16] [01:11.72]Who's that hippy hoppy character without any beard [01:14.35] [01:15.98]Drinking juice from papayas singing songs to the trees [01:19.47] [01:20.47]Dancing mambo on the beaches spreading social disease [01:23.16] [01:24.60]Now the Castro convertible was changing the style [01:26.91] [01:28.47]A whole lot of action on a blockaded isle [01:31.35] [01:33.03]When along come a summons in the middle of night [01:35.84] [01:36.66]Saying "Buddy we're about to indict " [01:39.04] [02:05.80]When I went up on the stand with my hand good people [02:09.55] [02:10.61]You've got to tell the truth in the booth good people [02:13.73] [02:14.48]I started out with information kind of remote [02:16.92] [02:18.05]When a patriotic mother dragged me down by the throat [02:21.17] [02:22.49]"If they ask you a question they expect a reply " [02:25.24] [02:26.61]Doesn't matter if you're fixin' to die [02:28.55] [02:30.92]Well I was lying there unconscious feeling kind of exempt [02:32.00] [02:34.91]When the judge said that silence was a sign of contempt [02:37.98] [02:38.85]He took out his gavel banged me hard on the head [02:41.91] [02:42.92]He fined me ten years in prison and a whole lot of bread [02:46.17] [02:47.10]It was the red white and blue making war on the poor [02:50.10] [02:51.85]Blind mother justice on a pile of manure [02:53.92] [02:55.98]Say your prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance every night [02:58.22] [02:59.85]And tomorrow you'll be feeling all right