Capital Press Club - Summary of Songs

Program for Capital Press Club's Fifth Annual Headliner Award Skits.

Capital Press Club of Florida

State Archives of Florida, Collection N2004-5

1950 (circa)

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Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

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mid 20th-century

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Arts and Culture

Capital Press Club of Florida

NAACP

Ku Klux Klan

Bailey, Thomas

Collins, LeRoy

Hawes, Mark

SUMMARY OF SONGS

From The
Fifth Annual Headliner Award Skits

CAPITAL PRESS CLUB OF FLORIDA

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

Happy days are here again,
The session's high in gear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Legislature's here again.

Pork Choppers lead and we'll follow
Put off new tax bill tomorrow

There's no doubt about it now
We'll put the state to rout and how
Voters go to hell, we'll shout it now
Happy days are here again.

Now that the Legislature's on the hill
We'll smile, smile, smile.
Hunt up a lobbyist to pay your bill,
Mooch boys, that's the style.
Party, party, every night,
Per diem all the while.

So...

Tell your constituent you'll pass his bill
And smile,
smile,
smile.

DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
(Doing What Comes Naturally)

Commission:
If your town is poor and its
Economy is draggin,
Follow our suggestions now
You'll drive a station wagon
A Buick station wagon.
We'll turn your barn into a zoo,
Put orange juice in your well.
A welcome station on your porch
To give the old hard sell

Cast: That comes naturally.

JOHNS COMMITTEE
(It's Later than you Think)

Investigate, the NAACP
Investigate, the University.
Investigate, the Klan and all but me.
Investigate, Investigate, Mark Hawes
Must get his fee.

Investigate, our Strickland is the sleuth
Investigate, the aged and the youth.
Investigate, don't mix the voter's booth
Investigate, and confiscate, but
Don't dig up the truth.

RAIFORD RUCKUS
(My Buddy)

Culver, Sinclair:
Nights are long since we went astray.
I dream of riots all thru the day.
We're buddies. We're buddies
How far can I trust you?

We will smile
for LeRoy it's grand.
Just so he knows that we understand.
We're buddies. We're buddies
'Til I get rid of you.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE
(Davy Crockett)

Bailey, Thomas Bailey
King of the Florida Schools.
He wasn't born in Tennessee
But he's as smart as he can be.
Fights to keep the schools all free.
Spends lots of money on you and me.

Bailey, Thomas Bailey
King of the Florida Schools.
The FEA is a power you see
There's a PTA behind every tree.
So, just as easy as ABC
The state shells out the DO, RE, MI.

Bailey, Thomas Bailey
King of the Florida Schools.

DIAL TONE
(I've Grown Accustomed)

I used to rant and rave and moan,
While waiting for the blasted tone.
If I should try to get long distance,
It's a one to twenty bet
The operator's answer would be:

Sir, the circuit's wet
It does not good to raise the roof,
It's better to just to get --
Accustomed to goof.

RAILROAD COMMISSION
(Sleepy Time Gal)

Boyd:
Sleepy time pals, you snooze the
hearings away.
Sleepy time pals, you've learned
to nap for your pay.

And while the hearings go on,
I know they bore.

You squirm and twist in your seats
And soon prop your feet
And snore.

CENTRAL PURCHASING
(That's Where My Money Goes)

Commission:
That's where your money goes,
across the street to Rose
We'll spend for anything to keep taxes high.

We'll print a brand new book,
take bids by hook or crook
Oh boy, that's where your money goes.

(SOLO)
If you will C-A-L-L, call, me, all the T-I-M-E, time
I won't O-U-T, outbid you,
not a T-I-M-E, time.

HIGH NOON
(Home On The Range)

How often I mused
As I sat there confused
If I ever would want to return.


But in the past years
I've missed all the cheers
And ambition within my heart burns.

Home, home 'neath the dome.
Where the Senate and House members play.
Where seldom is heard
An intelligent word
And the people provide all the pay.

FINALE
(Pack Up Your Troubles)

Now that the Legislature's on the hill
We'll smile, smile smile.
Hunt up a lobbyist to pay your bill,
Mooch boys, that's the style.
Party, party, every night,
Per diem all the while.

So...

Tell your constituent you'll pass his bill
And smile, smile, smile.

Visit the house or Senate, get your fill
Of guile, guile, guile.
Arm waving orators whose quotes are nil,
Statues by the mile.
Lots of curvy attaches
To wiggle down the aisle.

So...
Now that the Legislature's on the hill
We'll smile, smile, smile.

End