The Mountain Goats do Super Tuesday

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The Mountain Goats (Chrissy Piper) View the Slideshow

We asked the Mountain Goats to write a song about Super Tuesday. And they did!

"Down to the Ark"



The candidates met up in North Dakota

And they donned their black robes there in the chapel hall

They said a brief invocation to their cloven-hoofed prince

And they signed their names in blood on the vestry wall

In Christ you know there's neither high nor low

And the void will claim all creatures small or bright

Seal up the borders or let everybody in

In the order of the serpent, there'll be neither left nor right

And we pull down our blindfolds

And we reach out for the lever in the dark

Get a sticker for our shirts as we head into the sun

Proudly bearing the mark

Headed down to the ark

The applicants went down to Oklahoma

And they hired an accent coach to teach them the western twang

And several post-born babies learned the hard way:

Vampires only kiss you if they've sharpened up their fangs

And as Minnesota fell, so went Missouri

We met at VFWs in the snow

And we voted down the tax codes, and we voted down the war

Ao many names to choose from, just one way to go.