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I’m Overlooking a Police Booking [1]

['Larry Lagarto', 'Greg Dworkin', 'Bill In Portland Maine', 'Excorpflunky', 'Zct.Life']

Date: 2026-09-04  

The other day…

About 40 years ago I was doing some yard work and saw a small patch of clover by the front step. Remembering a 1920’s novelty song my mother used to sing around the house, the first line popped into my head, transforming “I’m looking over a four leaf clover” into “I’m overlooking a police booking.”

Yesterday afternoon I was doing some yard work and came across another patch of clover. This time, informed by the last four decades of political campaigns, the entire song tumbled out. Essentially it’s a song about how we sometimes choose political candidates:

(To the tune of “I’m Looking over a Four Leaf Clover”, Mort Dixon & Harry M. Woods, 1927)

I’m overlooking

A police booking

That I’ve overlooked before ​One for harassment,

Another for fraud,

A third for an outrage we somehow applaud! ​Without detaining,

There’s still remaining

A charge that we all ignore. ​I’m overlooking

A police booking

We’ve all overlooked before!

And in case you need a refresher on the tune:

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