21st Century Uneasy Rider

[cojoel]

With sincere apologies to Charlie Daniels... :)

I was takin' a trip out to L.A.
Driving along in my old Chevrolet
Jamming to hot salsa music on the stereo

Just as I crossed the Arizona line
I heard a siren starting to whine
And I knew somehow, I was in for a real bad day

I pull the car to the side and got out of the car,
the cop draws his gun and says “you know where you are?”
Then I remembered about that new law, the Minuteman, and Sheriff Joe.

He looked me over and said you look kinda brown,
and obviously you came to here at least out of town,
and who knows, you may be in the country, illegal-like.

He asks for immigration papers, as the law says he can
Says I really don’t want to have a problem with the man,
So if I could show him my green card, I could be on my way.

I was born in west Texas and been here all my life,
I only speak English, and so does my wife,
So I told him, and showed him my license and Social Security card.

The license won’t do, ‘cause it doesn’t prove I’m legal
And the card has no picture, just an image of an eagle,
so if I didn’t produce a birth certificate, he had to turn me in.

He impounds my car and hauls me off to the jail,
I need to see the Feds, so there will be no bail,
so I expect a kind of a long night.

They finally send me over to see the ICE,
he finds that I am legal, that they shouldn’t bother me,
so he signs some papers and sends me back

I go to get my car but they want me to pay,
They say three hundred now, plus 50 more a day,
So I scrape together the three hundred, and get my car.

I gassed it up and headed straight out of there,
Went as fast as I could, didn’t stop anywhere,
And I didn't relax till I made it to California

Well next time I’m gonna reroute my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to L.A., via Canada