We've Got A Bigger Problem Now Lyrics

I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still, you made me President

Human rights will soon go 'way
I am now your Shah today
Now I command all of you
Now you're gonna pray in school
I'll make sure they're Christian too


California Uber alles
California Uber alles


Uber alles California
Uber alles California


Ku Klux Klan will control you
Still you think it's natural
Nigger knockin' for the master race
Still you wear the happy face


You closed your eyes, can't happen here
Alexander Haig is near
Vietnam won't come back you say
Join the army or you will pay


California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California


Welcome to 1984
Are you ready for the Third World War?
You too will meet the secret police
They'll draft you and they'll jail your niece


You'll go quietly to boot camp
They'll shoot you dead, make you a man
Don't you worry, it's for a cause
Feeding global corporations' claws


Die on our brand new poison gas
El Salvador or Afghanistan
Making money for President Reagan
And all the friends of President Reagan


California Uber alles
California Uber alles
Uber alles California
Uber alles California
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Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

iamtheowl, yes, it's California Uber Alles updated for Reagan's election as president. The original bashed a pretty harmless hippie governor, who just happened to be a little too ambitious for Biafra's tastes. But after Reagan got elected, Brown's ambitious hippie-state ideas started looking pretty damn insignificant. Hence the title of this song.

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

Pure genius!

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

anyone know if this is just like part two of California Uber Alles, or why the similar lyrics?

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

was it re-written for reagens recent election victory or am i completely wrong?

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

This song its amazing.... so fucking good, i like this "update" better than the original California Uberalles

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

i love how in the mutiny on the bay version jello messes up on the word oppertunity (saying instead opperty) and not only do they leave it (how many bands would do that) but he is able to recover and make it sound good

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

A lot of punk fans today bashed Reagan and don't even know why he deserves it. But there is a reason. He was an old man whose mind was going fast, who didn't like to actively participate in his own decision-making, who completely ignored the poor thinking that they were all poor by their own choice, who covered up his own gaping blunders with anecdotes that didn't actually happen, and whose administration made some of the most glaring oversights in the history of US politics. The media hailed him as the "Great Communicator". If Bush had the communication skills of Ronald Reagan, his approval ratings would probably be just as high.

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

There's a version i've heard that opens with "Last call for alcohol, last call for freedom of speech. Drink Up, Happy hour is now enforced by law. Don't forget our house special, it's called a Trickie Dickie Screwdriver, it's got 1 part Jack Daniels, 2 parts Purple Kool-aid, and a jigger of fermaldahyde from the jar with hitler's brain in it we got in the back store-room"

My question is, why the reference to RIchard Nixon (trickie dickie screwdriver), is he just like "yeah ronald reagan sucks, but don't forget when Richard Nixon screwed us over"? or what?

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

iknowmyonion, that is the version we're talking about, but since he says it instead of sings it I guess it doesn't belong in the lyrics

Cover art for We've Got A Bigger Problem Now lyrics by Dead Kennedys

i feel that if you replace Reagen with Bush many if not all of DK's songs remain relevent today.