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I rolled out this morning the kids had the morning news show on
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Bryant Gumbel was talking bout the fighting in lebanon
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Some senator was squwking 'bout the bad e-con-o-my
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It's gonna get worse you see
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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 headline say
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Not much to print today, Can't find nothing bad to say
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because
[Chorus 1]
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Nobody robbed a liqour store on the lower part of town
C F6 G9
Nobody OD'ed nobody burned a single building down
C F Dm7
Nobody fired a shot in anger no-body had to die in vain
C G7 C
we sure could use a little good news to-day
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C F F/G
I'll come home this evenin' I bet that the news will be the same
C Am
Somebody takes a hostage somebody steals a plane
F C
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
Am Fmaj7
and how we cleaned up the air, HOw everybody learned to care,
F/G
Oh tell me
[Chours 2]
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Nobody was assasinated in the whole third 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 U.S.A
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we sure could use a little good news today
C F G
[Chorus 1]
C F6 G9
Nobody robbed a liqour store on the lower part of town
C F6 G9
Nobody OD'ed nobody burned a single building down
C F Dm7
Nobody fired a shot in anger no-body had to die in vain
C G7 C
we sure could use a little good news to-day