I'll sing to you a story of degenerate morality,
T'was prosecuted as a case of corp'rate criminality,
The miscreants attempted to dismiss as triviality
While stealing the life savings of those practicing frugality
What started as a farce to build up their profitability,
Became a mass of scheming that would end the full duplicity,
Of various executives who hid from the publicity.
The tales THEY told exCEEded creDUlous elasTICity
A number of these cases are of companies A-merican,
But co-conspirators were both Jamaican and the Anglican,
Politically they stretched from Democratic to Republican,
And would have earned the scorn of all the brothers in the Vatican.

I've seen the very model of a WorldCom executive,
Defrauding all his customers and almost was a fugitive,
He juggled books and profits so as to increase his equity,
And when it came to cheating, he was known for perspicacity
His name was Bernard Ebbers and he really was the CEO,
I saw him when arrested on MSN-BC video,
And when he was arraigned as you expect he pled not guilty-o
A paragon of virtue we'd just have to say that it ain't so.
So now MCI telecom has risen from that debacle,
And those who held their stock have viewed it almost as a miracle,
Poor folks who lost their fortunes now just glare upon the spectacle,
And doubt that many others will escape evil's long tentacle

Mis-treated Enron employees did sue for their retirement,
Since Mulgrew, Darby, Bermingham invested in things fraudulent
The moneys that they meant to raise were headed for the Cayman Isles,
The National Westminster Bank the origin of those nasty wiles,
That led to the indictment and prosecution of those Texas trials
Which came about because they failed most thoroughly to shred the files,
The SEC began to implicate L.L.C. Anderson,
Be-cause of all the fine work done by the Grand Jury IN Houston.
Sarbanes and Oxley looked at these disasters as too typical,
From Global Crossing and Adelphia's failures hysterical,
And though the prose they wrote is not regarded here as lyrical,
Unfortunately their new law will not make us less cynical.