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  I rolled out this morning the kids had the morning news show on 
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  Bryant Gumbel was talking bout the fighting in lebanon 
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  Some senator was squwking 'bout the bad e-con-o-my 
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It's gonna get worse you see 
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we need a change in policy 
 
 
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   There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band 
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   One more sad story's one more than I  - can stand 
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   Just once how I'd like to see the headline say  
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Not much to print today, Can't find nothing bad to say 
 
 
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   because 
 
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Nobody robbed a liqour store on the lower part of town 
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  Nobody OD'ed nobody burned a single building down 
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  Nobody fired a shot in anger no-body had to die in vain 
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we sure could use a little good news to-day 
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I'll come home this evenin' I bet that the news will be the same  
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   Somebody takes a hostage somebody steals a plane 
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   How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a  county fair  
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and how we cleaned up the air, HOw everybody learned to care, 
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Oh tell me 
 
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Nobody was assasinated in the whole third world today 
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and in the streets of Ireland all the children had - to do was play 
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and everybody loves everybody in the good old U.S.A 
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we sure could use a little good news today 
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