The right to vote for every man
The essence of being an American
Lost to the win-anyway-I- can
It’s a Texas version of a Tally ban.
Already the hardest place to vote,
Texas amends the tough laws they wrote.
Your votes are suspect unless Republican
So says the snarky Texas Tally-ban
They need no mirrors, whispers, or smoke
Bold- no cloak, and this is not a joke
The next election tally will not stand
Until approved by the Texas Tallyban
The line of our great democracy
The sacred trust from me to thee
The stuff that keeps Americans free
Would thus fall to a little Texas tyranny
It’s odd-that a place so big and grand
Can stomach such a tawdry band
Sawing-off the branch on which they stand
that clever Texas Tally-ban
They turned Lincoln’s dream into a rune
With all depth and wisdom of a kiddie toon
Fall they must, for truth trampled by man
Will rise- a swift boot in their Texas Tally-can
To kill the asp the Bard once said
Must be smashed while in the egg
So, I’m for taking up an iron pan
To quash the Texas Tally-ban
It is a painful sight; to see
Democracy on wobbled knees
The lies are big and Texas-tall
The words are slippery like Texas oil
But so rude, crude, and clear to see
The victims are truth and decency
On muddy bellies, they stoop so low
to deliver their pernicious blows
But miss the mark—the heart goes on
Still beats strong, resisting wrongs
‘Gainst evil born to darkness, it fights
Tally-bans burn and die in the light
It needs a thundered voice of an outraged nation
Doubtless outrage without further hesitation
to enable the stroke of a wise man's pen
to rescue voting from the Texas Tally-Ban
