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Singer Tom Smith has retooled The Candy Man, a song written for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film, and most famously covered by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972. This video is now bouncing around the Pentagon, as its inhabitants seek to recover from yesterday’s budget roll out. Warning: Smith hails from Ann Arbor, so the rewrite has a liberal take. But it rings true. And it is funny.