PRISON CELLS – an alternative xmas carol

Sung by the Billionaires for Greater Global Inequality

on December 22, 2001

in front of Forever 21 in the Glendale (CA) Galleria.

[1.09 MB in MP3 format (2 min 23 sec)]

Sing Along! (to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)

PRISON CELLS

It’s just a traffic stop

For D.W.B.

Then the cop plants drugs on you

And busts you 1-2-3.

Or you could get popped

And if it’s your third strike,

You’ll get life in prison

Just for jacking someone’s bike.

Oh, prison cells, prison cells

Don’t you break the rules.

We spend more on prison cells

Than we spend on our schools.

Prison cells, prison cells,

You’ll be doing time.

We’ll lock you up for 40 years

And say we’re tough on crime.

Here comes the D.A.

Watch him rig the game.

He’ll suppress the evidence

That just might clear your name.

You could still appeal,

But you’re bound to fail –

Your court-appointed lawyer

Couldn’t get Jesus out of jail.

Oh, prison cells, prison cells

Don’t you break the rules.

We spend more on prison cells

Than we spend on our schools.

Prison cells, prison cells,

You’ll be doing time.

We’ll lock you up for 40 years

And say we’re tough on crime.

You’ll be building toys.

You’ll be booking flights.

We’ll force you to work

So just forget about your rights.

We don’t pay you much.

You can’t unionize.

Prison labor really makes

Our profit margin rise.

Oh, prison cells, prison cells

Don’t you break the rules.

We spend more on prison cells

Than we spend on our schools.

Prison cells, prison cells,

You’ll be doing time.

We’ll lock you up for 40 years

And say we’re tough on crime.

We don’t add no frills,

Nor rehabilitate.

We privatize the prisons

And we get rich from the state.

If our venture fails

And if our stocks should tank,

We’ll let the public bail us out

And laugh it to the bank.

Oh, prison cells, prison cells

Don’t you break the rules.

We spend more on prison cells

Than we spend on our schools.

Prison cells, prison cells,

You’ll be doing time.

We’ll lock you up for 40 years

And say we’re tough on crime.



See also

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/23123.php

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/23080.php

(more alternative carols from the Billionaires for Greater Global Inequality to come....)