Folk and Traditional Song Lyrics:
Meeting Song
The Meeting Song
The Meeting Song
(Linda Chobotuck)
Don't waste our time with trifles
And don't be bureaucratic
But don't make a decision
Because that is autocratic
Put an end to anarchy
And give us some direction
But don't go telling us what to do
You're going to get objection
First we tried concensus
Because that is in this year
Let's put an end to patriarchal
Power forms my dear
But soon four-hour meetings
Began to take their toll
'Twas just a tyranny of those
With iron bowel control
The meetings were so boring
A time and effort waste
So we set up an executive
To deal with it post-haste
But then things were decided
And we had had no say
So we bought them all back for debate
Again another day
We made lots of regulations
To keep them all in line
But then we found they bound us too
There was a change of mind
There have to be firm guidelines
Which we must obey
As long as they me do what I want
Everything's okay
We used to go by Robert's
A Yankee power play
But we couldn't find a Burinot
So had to let it stay
Who cares if constitution
Or the rulebooks don't apply
There's always the Marquis of Queensborough Rules
On which we can rely
"A motion to table is non-debatable"
AJS
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