"Sorry for the Way Things Are in China" -- what is John Denver talking about?

[NDP]

@pesch

I thought so, too, until a friend directed me to his Rhymes & Reasons album. It features “The Ballad of Spiro Agnew” and “The Ballad of Richard Nixon.”

At the risk of offending them mods, here’s the ENTIRE LYRIC to “The Ballad of Spiro Agnew”:

“I’ll sing you a song of Spiro Agnew and all the things he’s done.”

The rest is silence.

“The Ballad of Richard Nixon” is even shorter.