Lying John McCain (apologies to Ira Hayes and Johnny Cash)

If only the Man in Black were around to sing this,

(And apologies for having posted an incomplete version earlier.

John McCain,
John McCain

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

Gather round me press scribes, there’s a story I would tell
About a brave young pilot you should remember well
From the land of the Navy, Maryland,
And proud and noble men
Whose forefathers had its highest naval command

Weighed down by family history
Admirals to be overcome
He looked for his new heritage
His past failures to be undone.

Now McCain’s heart was hungry
And ambition grew greedy
So when opportunity knocked
He forgot 2000’s history

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

He once had taunted Viet Cong captors
Leading his captive pilots
But even with their torture
To home he would not bail out.

Then when the war was over
And he had come back home
He led the GOP to glory
In the desert Arizon’

Then when St. Paul was coming
And his choice was Sarah Palin
To please the Religious Rightest
By desperate John McCai-in

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

McCain returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored
Everybody shook his hand

McCain then ran for Congress
And found him a brand new wife
He charmed the slickest financiers
Indulged his Senatorial life.

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

But he was not a Christian fundy
No born-again call from above
No friend of Limbaugh, either
No talk radio with dittohead love.

Yeah, call him lyin’ John McCain
The truth he gets assailin’
Like a dog, he throw the Right a bone
And lies about Sarah Palin

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

Yeah, call him lyin’ John McCain
The man who will not tell the truth
Trapped in his own self-deception
Getting longer in the tooth.

He lied most every morning
Across the land he’d fought to save
And again at every evening,
Lying in the home of the brave

CHORUS:
Call him lying John McCain
He won’t tell the truth no more
Not the crashing Navy pilot,
Not Hanoi’s prisoner of war

Yeah, call him lyin’ John McCain
And his lies are just as dry
The POW honor has gone away
In the ditch where honor died.