Vi har problemer her i river city?
Ya Got Trouble
En veltalende, men korrupt handelsrejsende sælger tager jobbet som musikinstrumentforhandler og forsøger at overbevise borgerne i River City, Iowa, om at finansiere hans idé om et drengeorkester ved at spille på deres frygt for ungdomskorruption, repræsenteret af et nyt lomme-billardbord i den lokale billardhal. Sangen er hans argument om, hvad der kan ske, hvis borgerne ikke indser faren og ikke følger hans forslag om en mere sund aktivitet. Sangen indeholder mange typer af ugyldig argumentation ("problemerne starter med t, som rimer på p, som står for pool").
Ya Got Trouble
A smooth-talking, yet corrupt, traveling salesman takes up the occupation of a musical-instrument dealer and tries to convince the citizens of River City, Iowa, to fund his idea for a boys' marching band by playing on their fears of youth corruption, represented by a new pocket pool table in the local billiard hall. The song is his slippery slope argument of what could happen should the citizens fail to recognize the danger and not follow his suggestion for a more wholesome activity. The song contains many types of invalid argumentation ("trouble starts with t, which rhymes with p, which stands for pool").
Ya Got Trouble