Who knows what drama will arise on Tuesday here in the U.S. with the presidential election. I have been organizing my song writing notes as I get ready to work on new material and I stumbled across “The Ballad of the Dimpled Chad.” saved in an old Quark XPress file. “Dimpled Chad” is a novelty song I wrote but never released in the heady days of 2000. (I didn’t release it because it didn’t match the album of children’s songs I was recording at the time.)
You recall that Al Gore won the popular vote but the battle for the White House came down to a couple of Supreme Court decisions about whose votes really counted in which counties in Florida.
Enjoy the lyrics, and do go out and vote (If you haven’t already!)
The Ballad of the Dimpled Chad
Words and music by Robb Montgomery
Copyright 2000 Kidvibe.com publishing, (ASCAP) All rights reserved
First Tuesday in November
of the new millenium
two men up for one election
nobody knew who’d win
but TV procalimed a winner when it got down to the end
changed their mind an hour later
when the calls started pourin’ in
There’s a problem down in Florida
with the ballots that they had
nobody voted for president
blame it on the dimpled chad
The vote was close
and we stayed up late
to find out who would win
TV procalimed a winner
and had to take it back again
There’s a problem down in Florida
with the ballots that they had
nobody voted for president
blame it on the dimpled chad
Dimpled Chad . . .
Dimpled Chad . . ..
Dimpled Chad . . .
Dimpled Chad . . .
Flamingos, alligators
the tropics in the sun
A butterfly of ballots
baffled nearly everyone
There’s a problem down in Florida
with the ballots that they had
nobody voted for president
blame it on the dimpled chad
The winner was decided by
The highest court in the land
A battle of Supremes you see
had democracy well in hand
There’s a problem down in Florida
with the ballots that they had
nobody voted for president
blame it on the dimpled chad
