I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE
(from the album "Thanks For the Support")

words and music
copyright © 2008 by
Roy Zimmerman

I am the donut lady
I am the civil engineer
I am the tractor salesman who’s a stand-up comic at his daughter’s wedding

I am the court reporter
I am the guy in the sandwich suit
I am the third grade teacher
And I approve this message

I am the dental hygienist
I am the undertaker’s son
I’ll be the undertaker when the undertaker has been taken under

I am the tattoo addict
I am the runner-up Miss Maine
I am the ice cream vendor
And I approve this message

I am John the Baptist
And I am Nancy, the Presbyterian
And I am Jerome, the Jewish Unitarian, Born-Again Buddhist Wiccan Agnostic

I am the banjo lawyer
I am the laptop Kerouac
I am the NASCAR widow
And I approve this message

I am the conspiracy theorist
And I know five other conspiracy theorists
What, you think that’s a coincidence?

I am the precinct walker
And I am the polling place volunteer
And I am the statistician
And four out of five of me approve this message

I am Yip Harburg, saying it don’t matter how high the throne
What sits on it is the same as your own

And I’m Molly Ivins, saying what’s the difference who’s in that chair
Change doesn’t come from there
Change comes from here

I am the huddled masses
I am the amber waves of grain
I am the toothless carny in the shooting gallery  at the County Fair

I am the singer / songwriter / waitress
And I am another mother for Peace
I am the assistant scoutmaster
And I approve this message

I am the White House switchboard operator
And I approve this message

And I am the Arabic translator discharged because I’m gay
And I approve this message

And I am the last man to die for a mistake
And I approve this message

I am the dreamer who keeps on dreaming
And I approve this message

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This version of "I Approve This Message" is on the album THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT, available as a CD, as a digital download and as part of the Complete Collection

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