Note: I wrote this little ditty in 1994 or thereabouts.  How I came to write it is rather interesting but I'll pass up telling the details. At the time I wrote it I was an administrative law judge..... (I heard tax cases.)                                      
                                                           

                            

          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 much fewer;
 but bad as all those taxes were,
 the tax ass made me bluer.
 I got those Texas taxes, taxass blues,
 those Texas taxes blues…
 the kind a blues that not much helps
 'cept for Texas booze.
He took my boat. He took my car.
I ain't got much to lose.
The only thing that I got left....
these Texas taxes taxass blues.


   Bette Wolf Duncan
     copyright ©1994

 

                                                                                                    

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