GIVE MEASLES A CHANCE
words and music
copyright © 2015 by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
copyright © 2015 by
Roy Zimmerman and Melanie Harby
What do you got against the measles?
Why do you gotta be such a hater?
You with your facts
And your viral attacks
You’re a dangerous vax-
Inator
Why are you so polio-phobic?
Why are you so down on diphtheria?
Why you gotta dis-
Respect hepatitis?
You got a bad case of hys-
Teria
Don’t wanna get near ya
What is your beef with tetanus?
Why aren’t you just lettin’ us
Be?
Why can’t you let the bird flu
Fly, and be free?
Give measles a chance
Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Brother
As I recollect
Last time I checked
Americans still have the right to infect
Each other
Please control
The Center for Disease Control
‘Cause the CDC is not gonna be the solution
Disease control ain’t in the Constitution
That’s the US Constitution, written in 1789 in Philadelphia just four years before The Great Yellow Fever Epidemic emptied that city as the Founding Fathers ran for their lives. Yellow Fever was thought at the time to be caused by an accumulation of putrefying filth. Now, of course, we know it’s caused by a virus, and we have a vaccine for it.
Give measles a chance
Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Science
We know we’re correct
So we reject
The opinions of all the so-called intellect-
Ual giants
It’s all about Liberty
So we say, “Don’t tread on meeeeeeasles.”
Why do you gotta be such a hater?
You with your facts
And your viral attacks
You’re a dangerous vax-
Inator
Why are you so polio-phobic?
Why are you so down on diphtheria?
Why you gotta dis-
Respect hepatitis?
You got a bad case of hys-
Teria
Don’t wanna get near ya
What is your beef with tetanus?
Why aren’t you just lettin’ us
Be?
Why can’t you let the bird flu
Fly, and be free?
Give measles a chance
Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Brother
As I recollect
Last time I checked
Americans still have the right to infect
Each other
Please control
The Center for Disease Control
‘Cause the CDC is not gonna be the solution
Disease control ain’t in the Constitution
That’s the US Constitution, written in 1789 in Philadelphia just four years before The Great Yellow Fever Epidemic emptied that city as the Founding Fathers ran for their lives. Yellow Fever was thought at the time to be caused by an accumulation of putrefying filth. Now, of course, we know it’s caused by a virus, and we have a vaccine for it.
Give measles a chance
Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Science
We know we’re correct
So we reject
The opinions of all the so-called intellect-
Ual giants
It’s all about Liberty
So we say, “Don’t tread on meeeeeeasles.”
