COD - Ode to the Crooked One
from Where's the Peace 2004



Track 05 - Ode to the Crooked One

I was born,
In 1974.
The year he won,
The Sydney seat of Bennelong.


Backbencher,
Couldn't have been much of an adventure.
One year on,
Came the dismissal of Gough Whitlam.


And so then it began,
His life in Government.
Didn't take him too long,
To rise to prominence.


Eighties when,
You spent time in opposition.
From where you,
Opposed Asian immigration.


List goes on,
The deceit and all you've done wrong.
From now on,
You'll be known as the crooked one.


And you fooled us again,
A conservative plan.
Full of narcissism


Lock up child refugees,
Mandatorily.
On the food that they eat,
They must pay G.S.T.


Don't understand how you got in.
Why did anyone vote for you?
Your performance is appauling.
That is why we must say to you...


Oh what a chode,
So this is an ode,
To the crooked one.


Treasurer when,
Malcolm's P.M.,
And then 13 years on.


Oh by default,
You're catapult,
Into number #1.


I can't understand,
Why you're the man,
That they call honest Jon.


So let it be told,
Through an ode,
To the Crooked One.
About this war,
That you want,
With the tyrant Saddam.


There's more to gain,
For us all,
Through peaceful resolution.


But instead you're,
Tryin' to become,
George Bush's bum chum.

And all the while,
You still deny,
Reconcilliation.

It's you they despise,
And that's given rise,
To Pauline's One Nation.

Oh what a chode,
So this is an ode,
To the crooked one.

Treasurer when,
Malcolm's P.M.,
And then 13 years on.

Oh by default,
You're catapult,
To number #1.


I can't understand,
Why you're the man,
That they call honest John.