IS AMERICA READY?
words and music
copyright © 2008 by
Roy Zimmerman
copyright © 2008 by
Roy Zimmerman
Lyndon Johnson
Escalated
And called his daughter
“Linda Bird”
Richard Nixon
Lied and cheated
And recorded
Every word
Gerald Ford
Pardoned Nixon
And hit a golf ball
That nailed a guy
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Again?
Jimmy Carter
Had a crisis
Botched a rescue,
Lost his cred
Ronald Reagan
Said that ketchup
Was a vegetable
‘Nuff said
Bush the Elder
Gave us Dan Quayle
Clarence Thomas
And phrase, “plausible deniability”
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Every little bit of social progress
Has been written into US law
But the upright, uptight, rich, white guy in authority
Only after it was bought and paid for
And made impossible for him to ignore
By the blood, sweat and tears of women and/or a minority
So, is America ready for a woman president?
Yes
Is America ready for a Black president?
Yes
Is America ready for a gay president?
Buchanan. Hello!
Howard Taft was so fat he got stuck in a bathtub
Well, Bill Clinton
Smoked a stogie
With an intern
He came across
Bush, the Lesser
What can I say
That I haven’t
Written forty songs about already?
This has only
Been a problem
For a couple
Hundred thirty-two years
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Are you ready, America
Are you ready for yet another rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Vote Huckabee!
Escalated
And called his daughter
“Linda Bird”
Richard Nixon
Lied and cheated
And recorded
Every word
Gerald Ford
Pardoned Nixon
And hit a golf ball
That nailed a guy
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Again?
Jimmy Carter
Had a crisis
Botched a rescue,
Lost his cred
Ronald Reagan
Said that ketchup
Was a vegetable
‘Nuff said
Bush the Elder
Gave us Dan Quayle
Clarence Thomas
And phrase, “plausible deniability”
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Every little bit of social progress
Has been written into US law
But the upright, uptight, rich, white guy in authority
Only after it was bought and paid for
And made impossible for him to ignore
By the blood, sweat and tears of women and/or a minority
So, is America ready for a woman president?
Yes
Is America ready for a Black president?
Yes
Is America ready for a gay president?
Buchanan. Hello!
Howard Taft was so fat he got stuck in a bathtub
Well, Bill Clinton
Smoked a stogie
With an intern
He came across
Bush, the Lesser
What can I say
That I haven’t
Written forty songs about already?
This has only
Been a problem
For a couple
Hundred thirty-two years
Is America ready...
Is America ready...
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Are you ready, America
Are you ready for yet another rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant president?
Vote Huckabee!
