[Verse 1] A scholar sharp, with piercing gaze, He cuts through fog with reason's light! Sowell said The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Sowell, clear and bright! Dispelling myths with all his might! Heave ho, reality's cold facts! Ignoring truth leads down wrong tracks! [Verse 2] Who makes decisions, pays no cost? A dangerous path, a foolish game! Sowell said It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Sowell, clear and bright! Dispelling myths with all his might! Heave ho, reality's cold facts! Ignoring truth leads down wrong tracks! [Verse 3] Young Johnny reads, or maybe not, But thinking's lost, replaced by feel! Sowell said The problem isn't that Johnny can't read... The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Sowell, clear and bright! Dispelling myths with all his might! Heave ho, reality's cold facts! Ignoring truth leads down wrong tracks! [Verse 4] For thirty years, the West has strayed, Sowell said Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good! No perfect fix can e'er be made, Sowell said There are no solutions, only trade-offs! A clever mind is not the same, Sowell said Intellect is not wisdom! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Sowell, clear and bright! Dispelling myths with all his might! Heave ho, reality's cold facts! Ignoring truth leads down wrong tracks!
