The Dismissal Song
Text & Music:Sibylle Machat, 2003
Sibylle says: This is the result of an English class, where I talked with my students about forms of dismissal in the English language. You know, some professions have their own individual terminology for this situation: a clergyman may be defrocked, a lawyer disbarred, an army officer cashiered.Why should not people in other walks of life also have their own terms for dismissal?
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Chords:
D C
G C
D C
G C
D C GCan an office-worker be defiled.
A salesman disordered.
A writer described.
A journalistdepressed.
And a botanist deflowered?A wine merchant deported.
A traffic warden defined.
A cashier distilled.
A celebrity defamed.
And a poet diversified?A cricketer detested.
A jailer excelled.
A policeman unwarranted.
A judge dishonored.
And a climber dismounted?A bishop disgraced.
A model deposed.
A gambler discarded
An engine-driver distrained.
And a neurologist unnerved?A conjuror disillusioned.
A prostitute delayed.
A solicitor distorted.
A rabble-rouser demobbed.
And a Chinese waiter disoriented?A mathematician nonplussed.
A diplomat disconsolate.
An investment banker distrusted.
A lawyer displeased.
And an immunologist disinfected?A convict discriminated.
A cowboy deranged.
A butcher disjointed
An actor displayed
And a statistician disfigured.
A horseman derided.
A sorcerer dispelled .
A politician disappointed.
A musician disbanded
Or denoted, disbarred, decomposed, or disconcerted