Freeze a Yankee
1979
Music by Bob Arnold
Lyrics by Bob Arnold & Bill Sturgeon
CHORUS
Freeze a Yankee, drive seventy-five and freeze em alive
Freeze a Yankee, let your thermostat rise and give em a surprise
Governor Briscoe promised us that if any [darn] Yankee [raised] a fuss
Wed turn off the gas, cut off the oil and let em all freeze and boil
VERSE 1
Now President Carter was a good ol boy, a Southerner through and through
But when he asked all Americans to sacrifice, he really meant you-know-who
He wants all our oil and our nuclear fuels
Now what does he take us for, silly fools?
The president wants us to pass our gas, now aint that a kick in the . . .
CHORUS
VERSE 2
They dont want an oil rig around their seashore, Lord its a terrible sight
And dont you try to drill in their dirty, old water, if you do youre in for a fight
Senator Kennedy told me himself
That he wouldnt let us drill on the Continental Shelf
So when they try to get Texans to drill another well, we can tell em all to go to . . .
Hyannis Port
VERSE 3
Cram them Yankees into little bitty cars while we drive around in limousines
There aint nothin in the world any more fun then pumpin gas in them big mo-chines
Us Texans love our Cadillacs, big Continentals and Pontiacs
Were gonna keep all the oil that we can make, and let them Yankees shiver and shake
VERSE 4
Them Yankees say they need our oil and they gotta have gasoline
But dont you put no refineries way up north, they wanna keep their air real clean
They only got enough lignite to last till midnight
Not enough fuel to keep their beer real cool
But well send you lots of oil, now dont you fear
If you promise not to move down here!
CHORUS TAG
Freeze a Yankee, Alleluia
Keep your Confederate credit cards, the Souths gonna rise again!