Your Tax Dollars At Work

C Em In a quiet lab, back in ol' DC, there's a man who works for an agency F G C In what some would say is a mighty strange car-eer, he takes a bottle of ketchup and pours it out real slow Em F G C C7 Then he uses his watch to see how fast it will flow and the government pays him 70,000 a year F C F C And it sometimes comes out fast and it sometimes comes out slow F C F C And it helps the time to pass when he listens to the radio F C E7 Am Am/G F C G C And sometimes when he's really bored he'll pretend he's Captain Kirk, This is your tax dol-lars at work C Em Things were going slow for the space program, so they asked for a quarter-million dollar grant F G C To send a sweet po-tato to outer space, and in Washington University Em F G C C7 Some professors got a federal subsidy to observe the way that earthworms defe-cate F C F C And it sometimes comes out fast and it sometimes comes out slow F C F C And what these guys are trying to find, heaven only knows F C E7 Am Am/G F C G C I wonder how we'll benefit from the fruits of this research, This is your tax dol-lars at work Dm7 G Dm7 G And we've ex-pended funds to the Pentagon, so they could buy a 2000 dollar John Dm7 G C C7 Dm7 G Or a coffee pot for the price of a Mon-et, and Andre Serrano got his start Dm7 G Dm7 G E E7 By pissing in a bucket and calling it art and receiving 30 grand from the NEA F G Am D F C G C To subsidize some artsy-fartsy, fecal fetish jerk, It's all your tax dol-lars at work C Em And for several weeks Congress went on hold, for a filibuster on gun control F G C By the Re-publicans and some Democrats from the South, well instead of paying 20 million bills Em F G C C7 Buying fertilizer for their districts' fields, we should use the stuff that comes out of their mouths F C F C And it sometimes comes out fast and it sometimes comes out slow F C F C And all the while the government payroll, is shelling out tons of dough F C E7 Am Am/G F C G C 'Cos whether it's a two-faced hack or the postman gone ber-zerk, It's all your tax dol-lars at work F C F C And in Washington they've got limosuines, while they say they feel our pain F C F C But the mayor doesn't feel anything, 'cause he's smoking crack co-caine F C E7 Am Am/G I never knew that s*x and drugs, was a governmental perk F C G C F C G C It's all your tax dol-lars at work, this is your tax dol-lars at work