''Four More Years in the Bush Leagues'' is a 2005 album by the
Capitol Steps
The Capitol Steps was an American political-satire group that performed from 1981 to 2020. Most of the Capitol Steps' material parodied well-known contemporary songs, usually introduced with a short skit. The songs were interspersed with other ro ...
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Track listing
#Embraceable Jew
#Wouldn't It Be Hillary?
#The Sunni Side of Tikrit
#Someone Dumber Might
#I Like Big Cuts and I Cannot Lie
#There is Nothing Like Ukraine
#Fakey Purple Hearts
#I've Taken Stands on Both Sides Now
#The Candidates' Debate
#Der Nadermouth
#It Don't Mean a Thing if Your State's Not a Swing
#Electile Dysfunction
#He Works Hard for the Country
#If I Only Had a Plan
#The Impossible Dean
#Sunni & Cher
#The Land's Not Your Land
#Detective Story
#The Supremes
#Lirty Dies: Yubble-Doo, Bot Nush, Startha Moowurt, and Rill O'Beilly
Songs parodied
In album order:
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Embraceable You
"Embraceable You" is a jazz standard song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named ''East Is West''. It was published in 1930 and included in that year's Broadway m ...
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Wouldn't It Be Loverly
"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play ''My Fair Lady''.
The song is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for ...
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On the Sunny Side of the Street
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a 1930 song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Some authors say that Fats Waller was the composer, but he sold the rights to the song. It was introduced in the Broadway musical ''Lew Leslie ...
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Summer Nights
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Baby Got Back
"Baby Got Back" is a song written and recorded by American rapper and songwriter Sir Mix-a-Lot, released in May 1992 as the second single from his third album, '' Mack Daddy'' (1992). The song was written and co-produced by him, and samples the ...
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There is Nothing Like a Dame
"There Is Nothing Like a Dame" (for 4 part male voices, 2 tenors and 2 basses) is one of the songs from the 1949 musical '' South Pacific''. The song was written by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is widely popular in the mu ...
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Achy Breaky Heart
Achy may refer to:
* Suffering from pain
* Stéphane Achy (born 1988), Gabonese footballer
* Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas (born June 28, 1956) is a Cuban-American writer and translator focused on personal and national identity issues, living in Benic ...
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Both Sides Now
"Both Sides, Now" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. First recorded by Judy Collins, it appeared on the US singles chart during the fall of 1968. The next year it was included on Mitchell's album ''Clouds'', and became one of ...
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'O Sole Mio
"O sole mio" () is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972).. The title transl ...
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It Don't Mean a Thing
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard, and jazz historian Gunther Schuller characterized it as "now legendary" and "a pro ...
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She Works Hard for the Money
"She Works Hard for the Money" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her album '' She Works Hard for the Money'' (1983). The song was written by Michael Omartian and Summer, and produced by the former. It was released as the lead singl ...
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If I Only Had a Brain
"If I Only Had a Brain" (also "If I Only Had a Heart" and "If I Only Had the Nerve") is a song by Harold Arlen (music) and Yip Harburg (lyrics). The song is sung in the 1939 film '' The Wizard of Oz'' by the character Scarecrow, played by Ray Bolg ...
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The Impossible Dream
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I Got You Babe
"I Got You Babe" is a song performed by Sonny & Cher and written by Sonny Bono. It was the first single taken from their debut studio album ''Look at Us''. In August 1965, their single spent three weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 10 ...
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This Land Is Your Land
"This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", with melody based on a Carter Fam ...
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Stayin Alive
"Stayin' Alive" is a song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the ''Saturday Night Fever'' motion picture soundtrack. The song was released in 1977 as the second single from the '' Saturday Night Fever'' soundtrack. The band co-produc ...
New lyrics by Bill Strauss, Elaina Newport and Mark Eaton
Production personnel
*Producer: Elaina Newport
*Director: Bill Strauss
*Sound Engineers: Jim Smith and Greg Hammon
*Pianists: Howard Breitbart, Eileen Cornett, Dave Kane, Marc Irwin, Emily Bell Spitz and Lenny Wiliams
*Cassettes and CDs pressed by Lion Recording
References
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Capitol Steps albums
2005 live albums
2000s comedy albums
Self-released albums
Songs about George W. Bush