Dramarama, who earlier this year reunited after a nine-year break, have re-recorded the Dead Kennedy's politically-charged classic "California Uber Alles," with a new set of anti-Arnold Schwartzenegger lyrics reflecting the group's embarrassment at the state of affairs in their adopted home of California.

The new song is available to download as an MP3 on Dramarama frontman John Easdale's Web site (johneasdale.com) and includes lyrics penned by Easdale both mocking the circus that the state's gubernatorial race has become as well as Schwartzenegger's alleged history of sexual misconduct and making comments of admiration about Adolf Hitler.

Easdale says that the song was a last-minute project, written and recorded on the fly on Sunday. "It's funny, that same day we got a phone call from the pre-recorded robot Arnold reminding us to vote," he says. "It was surreal, but I guess most everything about this election has been that way, like why he's a more viable candidate than Gary Coleman. It's like you see this hero on TV, therefore he must be the hero that can save our state."

In addition to providing a catchy platform for Easdale's thoughts on the election, the song also speaks to the resilience of the Kennedys' original, which sounds as urgent as it did when it was recorded twenty years ago. "I tried to soften it as much as possible," Easdale says. "And I hope we didn't offend anybody, but mostly we did it for the love of rock & roll, the power and the strength of it. And who knows, if he wins, if we become the laughing stock of the nation, it might have something of a shelf life."

As for the band, which formed in New Jersey in the early-Eighties, Easdale says that there's a good chance that the reunited Dramarama will convene to record a new album that he had initially plotted as a solo release. The reunion was actually prompted by VH1, which contacted the band for a show about unsung musical talent from the Eighties and Nineties. "They showed up and it was like an ambush," Easdale says. "They asked, 'Do you want to play some with your old bandmates?' And the cameras are rolling. So we did it. I think ego wants me to be a solo artiste [laughs], but if there are people out there who want us to play and who would support it, it would be stupid not to. I've seen the power that's in a name."

Lyrics to Dramarama's "California Uber Alles":

Vote for me on Tuesday
I am Governor Arnold S.
I'll soon clean up this mess
I have inherited

I'm jingling all the way
from the Southland to the Bay
I'll govern all of you
Your kids will all lift weights in school

The Golden State is getting worse
Need Mr. Universe
I am a movie star
and drive the biggest, dumbest car

This hero always wins
Conveniently forgets his sins
Jumpin from the master race
and always wears a happy face

Here comes 2004
Knock knock on your front door
It's my very own secret police
come to pick up your ugly niece

March quietly to the camp
You'd make a lovely lamp
Don't worry it's just a shower
for your clothes here's a pretty flower

Body builder's in control
100 percent natural
Say goodbye you lousy pest
if you mess with Governor S.

ANDREW DANSBY
(October 7, 2003)