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American election

by JWT

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Recorded during our family summer holiday at Sandy Point Victoria January 2021 to help us debrief the 2020 US presidential election. All payments for this song will be used to support charitable work in Timor Leste.

lyrics

INTRO
Am C G Am x 8

VERSE 1
Am C G Am x 16
People talking civil friendly faces // Worlds are spinning in safe spaces
Birds are singing trees are blowing // Children laughing women glowing
Its getting hot but that’s OK // Waters rising every day
Now everything is changing // Storm clouds rearranging

CHORUS 1
E7 F C G x 16
Oh no it is an American election
Horror scream under Hollywood direction
Sell your stocks buy arms and bunker down
Pack your bags we are leaving town

VERSE 2
Am C G Am x 16
Wild yelling angry faces // Burn flags in public spaces
Disagree with speakers blaring // Wave your fist as lights are glaring
Act badly speak nasty // Leave everyone feeling ghastly
Hey foreigner you don’t vote // So start hacking in a trench coat

CHORUS 1

BRIDGE
Am C G Am x 16

CHORUS 1

VERSE 3
Am C G Am x 16
Wild yelling angry faces // Burn flags in public spaces
Disagree with speakers blaring // Wave your fist as lights are glaring
Act badly speak nasty // Leave everyone feeling ghastly
At last it ends, and things settle down// Clouds part to sun surround

CHORUS 2
E7 F C G x 16
Give thanks, for an American election
Freedoms messy, it is not perfection
Buy stocks, disarm, and dance on the street
Unpack your bags and move to the beat

VERSE 4
Am C G Am x 16
People talking civil friendly faces // Worlds are spinning in safe spaces
Birds are singing trees are blowing // Children laughing women glowing
It’s getting hot that’s not OK // Work together to change our way
We will have less world strife // If we vote for a better life

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released January 15, 2021
Written by John Winston Toumbourou with help from son Alexis Dunphy Toumbourou, who also played the organ. Drumming assisted by daughter Tessa Dunphy Toumbourou, her husband Brad Rusbridge (www.nicholasthompsongallery.com.au/artists/brad-rusbridge/) and my grandson Marlo Holmes Toumbourou.

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JWT Melbourne, Australia

John W Toumbourou is a folk song writer and artist and professor in Psychology. His wife Kim's untimely death inspired him to publish his music.

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