Songs:For The Good Of America (2829)

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For The Good Of America 
©2001 Rod MacDonald (Blue Flute Music/ASCAP)
         
Have you ever noticed, when you're being disregarded,
there's a singular phrase the politicos say
For the good of the country pretend nothing's happened
Just close your eyes and make it all go away, hear them say
         
"For the good of America just forget it, cause it's time to move on"
but the truth is, you know it when you hear it
their lips are moving but they're doing you wrong
         
There was a President popularly elected
in the prime of his life gunned down in his car
they blamed it all on some guy who couldn't even shoot
swore in a new President and went off to war, and they said
         
There was a ship anchored in a Vietnam harbor
on one summer evening it was blown all to hell
we invaded, lost 40,000 soldiers
years later we found out we blew it up ourselves, and we said
         
Down in Chile a great democracy was ended 
by the military takeover of General Pinochet
who murdered thousands of his own countrymen
under the watchful eye of the CIA, and we said
         
In Iran they took American hostages and 
held them prisoner til our election was done
they released them when our new President was sworn in
who sent them 8 billion worth of weapons in return
         
All my life I've heard people talking 
about some sinister conspiracy referred to as "they"
and I wondered who exactly "they" are
but now I know the answer when I hear them say
         
So remember sometime in your future
some pretender will want to be your leader one day
first he'll tell you how all your votes just disappeared
then step up to the microphone and give himself away when he says

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  • Overall rating: (21 votes)
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  • Length: 5:27
  • Times played: 120
  • People hearing: 1918
  • Times requested: 111
  • First played: Jan 26th, 2003
  • Last played: Oct 29th, 2008
  • Previously played: Sep 5th, 2008
  • Song ID#: 2829

Listener rankings:

5 stars=LauraT28 ♦ Dean ♦ Messtaken ♦ Kazookid ♦ JohnnyAppleseed ♦ E.D. Egg
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3 stars=Firewalk ♦ CooleyBufo ♦ Mert-the-Flirt ♦ Doctordoug

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