Residual Risk Rodeo
A square-dance corrective-action list turned into a fast bluegrass boogie, where every finding needs an owner and every chorus needs a response.
Creative context: The narrator is a creative voice, not automatically the artist. This song is not presented as verified reporting or a factual allegation about any particular person or employer.
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Words & signal
[Verse 1]
Well I’m the chair with the clipboard grin,
I call the figures, I call ’em in,
We got a laminated tracker by the coffee stain,
And cold black coffee beside the minutes again.
I tap the sheet and I clear my throat,
“Name your owner and make it wrote.”
The room says “Sure,” and the pencils dance,
Like they knew this tune from the second chance.
[Pre-Chorus]
Red, amber, green on the projector glow,
Same loose guard on the mill still low,
Same loaded wheel still turning slow,
I point at the chart and I let her go.
[Chorus]
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
(Boogie round) (pass it round)
(Same old wheel goes round)
[Verse 2]
I assign it to Dale with a pencil tap,
He hands it to Marcy, she hands it back,
Then I move the date like a magic trick,
From “this Friday” to “when we get a minute quick.”
We circle the box with a royal blue pen,
We close it out, then we open it again,
Next quarter rolls in with a fresh new breeze,
And the same old note comes waltzing in with the keys.
[Pre-Chorus]
Red, amber, green on the projector glow,
Same loose guard on the mill still low,
Same loaded wheel still turning slow,
I point at the chart and I let her go.
[Chorus]
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
(Boogie round) (pass it round)
(Same old wheel goes round)
[Verse 3]
Now the chair of the chairs got a cowboy hat,
He says “We need a subcommittee for that,”
So we write a note on a hockey sock tag,
And tie it to the handle of the forklift rag.
The tracker gets fat with a dozen little stars,
And the coffee grows teeth in the bottom of the jar,
We’re standing proud as the paper bends,
Like a beaver that built us a bridge to mend.
[Break]
We moved every box but never moved the load
[Chorus]
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
(We hear it now) (we hear it now)
(Same old wheel goes round)
[Verse 4]
And the room got still, and the jokes ran thin,
Like we’d finally heard where the trouble lives in,
Not in the form, not in the date,
But the easy little ways we learn to wait.
So I set that pen down soft and slow,
And I said, “All right, now we know.”
The fix ain’t fancy, it ain’t profound,
It’s the thing we do when nobody’s around.
[Final Chorus]
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
Step one, write it down
Step two, pass it round
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round
(We hear it now) (we hear it now)
(We hear it now) (we hear it now)
Corrective action boogie while the same old wheel goes round