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You should, indeed, repost your Gordon Lightfoot parody, "The Wreck of the Cruz Bustamante"

Okay, then, here it is ...

"The Wreck of the Cruz Bustamante"

The legend lives on from the Pechanga on down
Of California's First Mate Bustamante
A tax-hiking swine, Cruz looked as refined
As Quixote astride Rocinante.

With the recall bein' signed, Cruz thrice had declined
E'er to run on the ballot himself, see
For to do so would be, surely, disloyalty
To Cap'n Gray Davis's party!

And Cruz was the pride of la MEChista side
Who longed por la reconquistada
As big politicos go he was bigger than most
And sounded muy disparatada [nonsensical].

The news on the wire set Cruz's ambitions afire
As the recall broke past Davis's defenses
Every Democrat knew, as Cap'n Davis did, too,
Californians had come to their senses!

The crew wired Dianne it'd really hit the fan
And their Democrat ship's beams were a-groanin'
but Admiral Dianne wouldna' go; she shut off her radio
When the ship was broadsided by Conan!

It was then, Cruz did say, Davis was dead anyway -
"So what's the point keepin' mi promesa?"
He backstabbed ol' Gray but, that very same day,
apologized por la sorpresa!

October 7 she came with Gray pullin' up lame
while Tom and Bill threw help to Conan
Bustamante we're told never rose in the polls
despite 75 days of his phonin'

And so he went, political capital spent
To his party, he was repugnante
And so down went Gray, and, the very same day,
came The Wreck of the Cruz Bustamante!

*** instrumental ***

Orange County rolls, Sacramento sings
Of the cuts in the Davis - Cruz taxes
California she steams with the Terminator's dreams,
As regulation falls under the axes!

*** instrumental ***

The legend lives on from the Pechanga on down
Of that double-crosser muy gigante
That Election Day, Californians still say,
brought Tthe Wreck of The Cruz Bustamante!