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The Ballad of Delphi CEO Steve Miller
(sung to the tune of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 16 tons)

Got a call one day from the Delphi Board,
Packed up my limo went down to Troy,
Cut 30,000 jobs with the stroke of a pen,
Then gave millions in bonuses to 21 men,

You bankrupt 16 companies and what do you get,
Put a lot of good people a little deeper in debt,
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I cant go,
There aint no suites in Heaven for a corporate asshole.

Morris-Knudsen, Bethlehem Steel,
A lot of good people had to bend to my will,
Sat my own salary at a dollar a year,
But a $3,000,000 bonus makes it easy to bear,

You bankrupt 16 companies and what do you get,
Put a lot of good people a little deeper in debt,
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I cant go,
There aint no suites in Heaven for a corporate asshole.