From the House of Representatives

Tune: Jacques Offenbach's "The Marines' Hymn"

From the House of Representatives
To the Senate Chamber Floor,
We have drawn on insufficient funds
As we've never drawn before.
When it comes to balanced bank accounts,
We confess we don't know beans;
Even Kennedy describes us as
The "United States Spalpeens."

From the way the voters raised the roof
Over passing doubtful checks,
One would think that we'd been photographed
With a hooker during sex.
It is high time people realized
That to live within one's means
Doesn't fit the job description of
The United States Spalpeens.

Rest assured, our creditworthiness
Has been shipshape, fore and aft:
Why, the whole blamed U.S. Treasury
Stood behind each overdraft!
(Thank the Lord for back-room brokering
And political machines;
For without them, who would re-elect
The United States Spalpeens?)