Apologies to Woody G

This Vote Is Your Vote

Chorus:
This vote is your vote
This vote is my vote
From '87
to Amendment Fifteen
to 1920
'65 and '71

This vote belongs to you and me.

Back in 2000
I was watching tv
'Twas after bedtime
Florida picked Al Gore
But then the votes changed
and Timmie called it for Bush


What changed the votes of you and me?

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We fumed and grumbled
following Bush v Gore
From the facist wingnuts
to Supreme Court filings
And deep inside us
we slowly realized

They took the vote from you and me.

Chorus

2004 came
and we were happy
We thought momentum
had swung to Kerry
But Kenneth Blackwell
counts votes in O-hi-o

Ignoring votes from you and me.

Chorus

Republicans own Diebold
ES&S, too
And they own Choicepoint
And they own Accenture
And they own NBC
And they own FOX tv

Who owns the votes of you and me?

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Now Woody Guthrie
he travelled our country
And all around he
saw people sufferin'
Well Woody's dead now
but the sufferin's come round again

Let's hear a verse straight from Woody:

In the squares of the city
In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office
I see my people
And some are grumblin'
and some are wonderin'

If this land's still made for you and me.

Chorus

It's now clear to most people
that the party in power
Has bad ideas
Monumental failures
And come November
as we watch the midterm results

We best be seein' wins for the Ds.

Chorus (repeat as often as seems appropriate)