Anne Murray – A Little Good News (Ukulele)

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I rolled out this morning, kids had the morning news show on.

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Bryant Gumbel was talking about the fighting in Lebanon.

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Some senator was squawking about the bad economy..

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it's gonna get worse, you see, 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', because..

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Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.

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Nobody O.D.'ed, nobody burned a single building down.

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Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain.

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We sure could use a little good news today.

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I'll come home this evening, I'll bet that the news will be the same.

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Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane.

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How I want to hear the anchor man talk about a county fair.

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And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care..

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Whoa, tell me..

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Nobody was assassinated 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 USA.

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We sure could use a little good news today.

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Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.

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Nobody O.D.'ed, nobody burned a single building down.

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Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain.

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We sure could use a little good news today. (Fade.)