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Movin' Out

By "Milbarge" and "Fitz-Hume"

A parody song in to commemorate today being the day that the crack amendments are officially retroactive. (For more on that, see Prof. Berman's blog.) To the tune of Billy Joel's Movin' Out.

Anthony held up a grocery store,
Savin' his pennies for cocaine.
Down on the street with the junkies and whores
He couldn't afford cocaine powder.
He's servin' twenty-seven years for buying crack-ack-ack-ack-ack,
He could be home by now...
Today is the day, those bags he'll pack,
It's high time for him to get outta.

Well, the rules were too harsh for crack,
So the new rules will retroact,
Go tell the warden that I'm movin' out!

AG Mukasey is walkin' the beat
Tellin' a Senate committee,
He says releasin' a bunch of those violent ex-cons
Sure isn't gonna be pretty.
He's dead-set against rolling sentences back-ack-ack-ack-ack,
He should give up by now...
But he's too busy sayin' crackhead gangs
Will be flooding the streets of your city.

It seems such a waste of time
If all he can do is pout.
Good luck movin' on 'cause I'm movin' out!

I won't even argue over how you do the math-ath-ath-ath-ath,
I oughta know by now,
Uncle Sam won't pay for my overtime,
I still wish that I had bought powder.

'Cause the rules were too harsh for crack,
So the new rules will retroact,
Go tell the warden that I'm movin' out!

Full post as published by Begging the Question on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).