THE TEXAS TAXES BLUES



 I’m just a tax-broke Texas plumber.
 I’ve been plunged out good and drained.
 A visit from the tax man
has left me downright pained.
He flushed my pot out real, real good….
and then he seized the pot.
I ain’t got one t’ pee in
'cept the outhouse he forgot.  
I done been plumbed out real, real good.
I got those plumbed out blues-
The kind a blues that once y’ get
are kinda hard t’ loose.

A couple bucks been overlooked.
They’re hidden in the till.
If IRS don’t get ‘em first
that Texas tax ass will.
Those Texas taxes made me blue.
My assets grew quite fewer;
but bad as all those taxes were,
the tax ass made me bluer.
He took my car. He took my boat.
I ain't got much to loose.
The only thing that I got left...
these Texas Taxes Taxass blues.

                     Bette Wolf Duncan
                        © copyright1994