歌曲名 Washington, D C 歌手名 Gil Scott Heron

作词：Gil Scott Heron

作曲：Gil Scott Heron

Symbols of democracy pinned up against the coast

Outhouse of bureaucracy surrounded by a moat

Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight

Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night

Morning brings the tourists peering eyes and rubber necks

To catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck

It s a mass of irony for all the world to see

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

mmmm-hmmm

May not have the glitter or the glamour of L A

May not have the history or the intrigue of Pompeii

But when it comes to making music and sure enough making news

People who just don t make sense and people making do

Seems a ball of contradictions pulling different ways

Between the folks who come and go and one s who ve got to stay

It s a mass of irony for all the world to see

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

Seems to me

it s still in light time people knifed up on 14th street

Makes me feel it s always the right time

for them people showing up and coming clean

Did make the one seem kind of numb

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

mmmm-hmmm

Symbols of democracy pinned up against the coast

Outhouse of bureaucracy surrounded by a moat

Citizens of poverty are barely out of sight

Overlords escape in the evening with people of the night

Morning come and bring the tourists craning rubber necks

Catch a glimpse of the cowboy making the world a nervous wreck

It s a mass of irony for all the world to see

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital

It s the nation s capital it s Washington D C

It s the nation s capital

Got you feeling capital

Punishment is capital in Washington D C