Portland Public Schools – spending your money just as fast as they can

by Robert Hatfield

I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Pay Rag*

*With apologies to Country Joe and the Fish

Well, come on Portland pick up a pen,

PPS needs your help again.

They’ve got themselves in a terrible jam

Spending your money just as fast as they can

So sell off your stock and write out a check

We’re gonna hear a whole lot a dreck!

And it’s one, two, three,

What are we paying for?

Don’t ask them, they don’t give a damn,

And neither does Mayor Sam!

And it’s five, six, seven,

Give up on your saving plans!

Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! We’re all buying a lie!

Come on Portland, don’t be slow,

Why man, this is cash au-go-go!

There’s plenty good money we can waste

By supplying the District with money in haste,

But just hope and pray that if they run outta dough

The feds will give them more they can blow!

And it’s one, two, three,

What are we voting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t have a clue,

I’m a renter but it sucks to be you!

And it’s five, six, seven,

Where is the limit here?

Well there ain’t no chance to have a say,

Whoopee! you’re all going to pay!

Well, come on teachers, let’s move fast;

Your big chance has come at last.

Go out and put “it’s for the kids” in a phrase

‘Cause the only good paycheck is one with a raise

And you know that a raise can only be won

When we’ve taxed ’em all to kingdom come!

And it’s one, two, three,

What are we paying for?

Don’t ask them, they don’t give a damn,

And neither does Mayor Sam!

And it’s five, six, seven,

Give up on your saving plans!

Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! We’re all buying a lie!

Come on mother’s throughout Portland,

Throw gobs of my money at your children!

Come on fathers don’t hesitate

Vote YES! right now, before it’s too late;

And you can be the first one on your block

To have to move out, and in to a box!

And it’s one, two, three,

What are we voting for?

Don’t ask me, I don’t have a clue,

I’m a renter but it sucks to be you!

And it’s five, six, seven,

Where is the limit here?

Well there ain’t no chance to have a say,

Whoopee! you’re all going to pay!