We're Filling A Bottle For Ronnie

(Tom Paxton)

Chorus:
We're filling a bottle for Ronnie, we're filling it up to the brim
And we'll never rest till we all pass the test
For we all think the world of him
We're filling a bottle for Ronnie, and we'll never kick up a fuss
For we're only doing to that little bottle
What Ronnie's been doing for us

I go to my job every morning, I go to my job every day
My buddies and me, we're all plumbers, and we
Can't complain, for the job is okay
So there we are drinking our coffee and smoking a last cigarette
When in comes the foreman all red in the face
Saying, This is the hottest one yet
So Louie says, What's the big problem, what's got your dander up, Joe
Joe, he goes, Look in the paper my friend
It's there for the whole world to know
The President's gonna stop all these drugs by testing us one at a time
So all of us lays down our tools on the floor
And we busily start fighting crime

The people who work in the White House, according to what I read here
Are gonna be filling their own little bottles
To make sure the message is clear
At Cabinet meeting with Ronnie they're gonna be taking a break
They'll call a recess at the Gipper's request
And they'll all have some wee-wee to make

They're gonna be testing our children, and you can be certain of that
They're gonna be testing our old maiden aunts
And they're gonna be testing our cats
They used to go looking for traitors who commonly hid under beds
Now, 'stead of them stirrin' up all of this urine
They ought to try testing their heads