Lyrics

there was a river of limousines
politicians and men of industry
second wives, church bells chiming noon

they took the coffin up the marble stairs
past the statue of his incumbancy
like a shrine to the crimes he'd done

every dignitary here has either feared or paid him well
he was no ordinary man but just as well
the senator goes to hell

they had a writer on air force two
the vice president read his eulogy,
drape the flag over rags and bones

he said:
"he was a patriotic man
the very model of southern dignity
unafraid
to call a spade a spade"

and you can say he brought the bacon home to feed his clientele
he would have sold his soul if he had one to sell
the senator goes to hell

and no matter how deep they bury him, he's gonna smell
the senator goes to hell