Good News       

by Paul Aaron, Wes Lachot and Will McFarlane

Chorus:
Good News. Everyone’s talkin’ ’bout Good News.
Good News. All around town. Word on the street is there’s Good News.
                       
Verse 1:
Hey. Let the freedom bells ring.
Condi and Donnie thought of everything:
“Got the real God on our side,
And we’re gonna take the world for a ride.

We’re gonna write a new constitution.
In case you forgot what we’re fightin’ for,
We’re gonna win the war to end all wars.”

Chorus:
Good News. Everyone’s talkin’ ’bout Good News.
Good News. Turn on the radio. Turn on the tube an’ it’s Good News.
         
Verse 2:
Hey. Watch out who you let in.
There might be a terrorist among your friends.
You don’t need two points of view
With the Patriot Act watchin’ out for you.
It’s the conservative revolution:
You’re rich if you’re rich. You’re poor if you’re poor.
You’re dead if you’re dead and that’s for sure.

Bridge:
            Peace they promise.
Truth that they hide.
Climb and see the other side.

Alternate Chorus:
            Heard about the Good news. Everybody talkin’ ’bout Good News.
            Read the newspaper. It’s good news. On the six o’clock news.
Baby it’s Good News.
Have you heard. Have you heard.
Good News. Good News. Everywhere there’s Good News.
Good News. Good News.
Baby yo’ got Good News.

“Relieving Rant” into “fade out”:

Doubling gas price is bad news.
Doubling food price is bad news.
Cutting health insurance is bad news.
Cutting retirement and V.A. benefits, bad news….
            We want the Good News to
stop the war.
We will vote for Good News.
“W” says we fight to be free
            But there’re more people in our prisons than the world ever saw before
            while El Presidente, he claims Good News 
filling his pocket                
with profits he calls his Good News.
Let’s impeach out that kinda Good News.
Their corporations tell us Good News
but when their facts look bad
they just change their stories.
Torture and war is bad news.
How can so many not understand these are war crimes—
Destroying our country’s ethics—
Destroying Democracy—
Creating terrorists.
Enemy, oh my enemy, I can dance with you.
I dance to befriend you.
Be my friend and
take
a terrorist off the face of the earth.
We are not Smurfs too weak to challenge war.
We have the power to support our families,
to let our children dance together.
What’s not to like in a dancing society?
Dance with me enemy.
Forget about war.

So that's the story. Please get back to me soon.

Your Progressive friend,

Paul Aaron

PS You can hear the Greenjolly song at http://nesara.insights2.org/Ukraine.html

For your historical perspective:

The Orange Revolution was a movement of Ukrainian citizens that began on election day Sunday, November 21, 2004. The protest was against disreputable campaign tactics and election fraud by the administration presidential candidate. The "orange" in the title comes from the orange that was Yushchenko campaign color. 

The election day rally of many thousands of supporters grew in the following days to a rally of hundreds of thousands, with some people camping out along the central street in the city.
The end date for the Orange Revolution that I would pick would be December 26, 2004. On that day Ukrainians went back to the election booths and a majority of them again voted for opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko, this time successfully voting him into office.

The mood of peaceful protest on behalf of freedom, love, and brotherhood was like the ideal of activist existence. I never would have expected it, could hardly believe it, and just wanted to share it with any of you that I could. I was never so impressed by Ukrainians as I was in those months. Molodtsi!

http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/revolution/