With a feral hunger and a prickly itch Diamond Kate robs the poor and gives to the rich There's no homeland security when she comes to town Buying up your homestead, tearing it down And reselling the land at a costly amount
A poacher, a miser, a transplanted dry wit Reclaiming ghost towns for the chainstore pirate She steals candy from the babys in dire poverty Swipes food stamps for her bootleg from a welfare family
She paints the facades of the downtown saloons Raising property values for a real estate boom Substitute teaching indigenous youth A tenant employee and boarder recluse Kate squelches the truth of child abuse
II
Diamond left New Orleans to claim her estate When her landlord hubby pilfered her stake With a license to plunder and a plantation mind And the Encroachers Handbook for crossing the line She procures some bonds and inherits a mine Cleaning up the county with her pockets lined
The drunken empress of laboring strays Abets the cattle rustling marauders trade And desires to acquire the no wage slave An imprisoned village bows to the crown Diamond Kate Millionaire seized a whole town
