I’ve been threatening to write the following Dar Williams parody for about four years now. After last week’s loss, it came together. And with tonight’s win (wow were the pollsters wrong), I have more courage to post it. (Also, an Iowa “tell-all” post is coming as soon as I get sign-off from campaign people.)
Iowa (Campaigning Again)
I’ve never had a way with winners,
But the hills of Iowa make me wish that I could.
And I’ve never found a way to serve my country
But if the chance came by, oh I, I would
But way back where I come from, our parents taught us values
We don’t like to curb our passions with focus groups and polls
And we walk in the world of apathetics
And past midnight we trudge home and we pay the toll
Iowa…chorus [x2]
How I long to be in front for a little bit
To gain momentum and win on election night
But I fear that day is so far off
That I’ll be too old to enjoy the fight.
So you know I asked a friend about it, on a bad day,
Her candidate had just dropped out, she shredded a memo they left behind
She said “Why do this? Where does it get me?
Whoever created this calendar is no friend of mine.”
Iowa…chorus [x2]
Once I had everything, I gave it up
For a politician who struck me with the words I’d never heard.
And so for them I came this far, across the country,
Abandoning my life with complete disregard.
..and I’d do it again
For tonight I went canvassing through a 10-below windchill
Too scared that of a scenario that I could not bare to discuss:
You were a-wandering out on the hills of Iowa
and you were not caucusing for us.