A Little Investigation

Senator
We all stand ready to help your campaign
And you say you're going to investigate Wall Street
Because you need a new image?
Why, if it's headlines you're after
There are far better targets than Wall Street!

A little investigation
An honest effort to capture the vote
Meets Wall Street's true approbation
Long as you go for the other guy's throat

Go and attack malnutrition
That's a condition
Loaded with yaks
Go hit the mafia with malice
That'll get ballots
Stuffed in your box

Go throw a brick
Go throw a stone
Go throw your hat in the ring
Just let big business alone

A little investigation
Improves your image and lengthens your reign
Attack with true dedication
Only remember who backed your campaign

Go get upset about traffic
Or pornographic literature
Exterminate the boll weevil
Dig up an evil with some allure

Go and attack air pollution
Or prostitution
Put on the grid
Go after unmarried mommies
Go after commies
Be a good kid

Go throw a stick
Go throw a stone
Go throw your hat in the ring
Just let big business alone

Yes, make up your little shakeup
Your little rake-up
Your little probe
But nothing that over taxes
The Goldman-Sachses
Or cue net low

For this democratic society needs you
But if you start biting the one hand that feeds you
The first thing you know
Some young Kennedy succeeds you
And topples us all off the throne
So go out and let the folks know how it is
But dear McFetridge, let big business alone!
Let it alone
Let it alone
Alone!