A Little Good News

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I rolled out this morning
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Kids had the mornin' news show on
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Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Jerusalem
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Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy

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It's gonna get worse you see, 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 head line say
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"Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because

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Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
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Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
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Nobody fired a shot in  anger, nobody 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'
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I'll 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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Whoa, tell me

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Nobody was assassinated in the whole good 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 USA
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We sure could use a little good news to day

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Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
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Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
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Nobody fired a shot in  anger, nobody had to die in vain
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We sure could use a little good news to day

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And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
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We sure could use a little good news to day