Cut to the front of the line, Show ID to cast my vote; Face the bullet And know it will not hurt Because Columbus brought typhus to the natives For me, Washington froze at Valley Forge, For me, Jefferson freed slave Sally’s kids, For me. Andrew Jackson cried a Trail of Tears, for me. Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior Got shot in the Civil War, And Lincoln had malice for none, All for me. Edison literally had a bright idea, And Mark Twain called Teddy Roosevelt an imperialist thug, For me, William James searched a moral Equivalent of war, for me. Woodrow Wilson tossed Eugene Debs in jail, Making the world safe for democracy, And Edith took command after his stroke, For me. George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue, And Orson Welles paid for making Citizen Kane, And FDR also had a stroke, for me. Truman dropped the bombs On Hiroshima and Nagasaki, And revoked Paul Robeson’s passport, For me. Chuck Yeager punched holes in the sky, Elvis Presley got all shook up, Ike won the war, but warned of The military-industrial complex, For me. John Kennedy wore a back brace To stand up against the CIA, And had his brains blown out, For me. Ed Sullivan put the Beatles on TV, LBJ marched waist-deep into the Big Muddy, And Coltrane created A Love Supreme For me. Muhammad Ali refused to fight, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy Became brothers in death, Prompting Marvin Gaye to say What’s Going On, for me. John Wayne showed True Grit, Nixon lied to stay in office, Spielberg directed Jaws, And Bob Dylan sang of The Hurricane’s false imprisonment, For me. The Gipper took a bullet in the chest And killed nuns and priests In El Salvador, for me. George Bush the First Led a coalition of the willing To invade Iraq and keep the oilfields Safe for BP and Exxon Mobil; Clinton shipped all the jobs To Mexico and China for me, And George 2 killed Saddam Hussein At God’s command To avenge the attack on September 11, For me, Just as Obama killed Osama, Took due process unto his exalted office, And banished whistleblowers to hell, All for me. Biden stole his way to warlord, Hating Russia but destroying Germany, And lied until he forgot his lines, All for me. A man with self-righteous stuff, Donald Trump, Cuts taxes, kills people in Gaza, Yemen... Anywhere the Deep State wants, Even abducts foreign students, Threatening same for homegrown scum, All for me. Leonard Cohen said Democracy is coming To the USA – All this for me.
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Cut to the front of the line, Show ID to cast my vote; Face the bullet And know it will not hurt Because Columbus brought typhus to the natives For me, Washington froze at Valley Forge, For me, Jefferson freed slave Sally’s kids, For me. Andrew Jackson cried a Trail of Tears, for me. Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior Got shot in the Civil War, And Lincoln had malice for none, All for me. Edison literally had a bright idea, And Mark Twain called Teddy Roosevelt an imperialist thug, For me, William James searched a moral Equivalent of war, for me. Woodrow Wilson tossed Eugene Debs in jail, Making the world safe for democracy, And Edith took command after his stroke, For me. George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue, And Orson Welles paid for making Citizen Kane, And FDR also had a stroke, for me. Truman dropped the bombs On Hiroshima and Nagasaki, And revoked Paul Robeson’s passport, For me. Chuck Yeager punched holes in the sky, Elvis Presley got all shook up, Ike won the war, but warned of The military-industrial complex, For me. John Kennedy wore a back brace To stand up against the CIA, And had his brains blown out, For me. Ed Sullivan put the Beatles on TV, LBJ marched waist-deep into the Big Muddy, And Coltrane created A Love Supreme For me. Muhammad Ali refused to fight, Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy Became brothers in death, Prompting Marvin Gaye to say What’s Going On, for me. John Wayne showed True Grit, Nixon lied to stay in office, Spielberg directed Jaws, And Bob Dylan sang of The Hurricane’s false imprisonment, For me. The Gipper took a bullet in the chest And killed nuns and priests In El Salvador, for me. George Bush the First Led a coalition of the willing To invade Iraq and keep the oilfields Safe for BP and Exxon Mobil; Clinton shipped all the jobs To Mexico and China for me, And George 2 killed Saddam Hussein At God’s command To avenge the attack on September 11, For me, Just as Obama killed Osama, Took due process unto his exalted office, And banished whistleblowers to hell, All for me. Biden stole his way to warlord, Hating Russia but destroying Germany, And lied until he forgot his lines, All for me. A man with self-righteous stuff, Donald Trump, Cuts taxes, kills people in Gaza, Yemen... Anywhere the Deep State wants, Even abducts foreign students, Threatening same for homegrown scum, All for me. Leonard Cohen said Democracy is coming To the USA – All this for me.