Just Like President Thieu - Loudon Wainwright III

No need to get frightened, no need to get frantic

Up in the air, above the Atlantic

I flew out of New York not a minute too soon

I’m gonna read all about it in the Herald Tribune

I’m gonna read all about it in the Herald Tribune

Well, I disembarked on the fourth day of May

707 non-stop getaway

There was one thing, however, that I was givin' up

I was missin' the finals of the Stanley Cup

I was missin' the finals of the Stanley Cup

When your friends are fair weather

And you’re prone to back stabs

You best become a door prize

Put yourself up for grabs

Put yourself up for grabs

Everyman’s bound to try to escape

From his pillage and his plunder, from his murder and his rape

I’m what you might call a fanatical hockey fan

But it was time to hightail it — you know the end its at hand

High time to hightail it — you know the end is at hand

Well, I got to Great Britain — she’s an ally for sure

They rolled out the red carpet — I got the policy open door

I shot through immigration and I whipped through customs too

I was collected in a limo, just like President Thieu

I was collected in a limo, just like President Thieu