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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..
               Am                                  F
it's gonna get worse, you see, we need a change in policy.

#2.
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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,
             Am                              F            G
'Not much to print today, can't find nothing bad to say', because..

CHORUS:
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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.

#3.
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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.
                   A#m                       F#
And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care..
G#
Whoa, tell me..

#4.
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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.
   C#               D#m         F#     C#
We sure could use a little good news today.

CHORUS/OUTRO:
C#                                  F#            D#m
Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.
C#                              F#              D#m
Nobody O.D.'ed, nobody burned a single building down.
C#                            F#                   D#m
Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain.
   C#               D#m         F#     C#  
We sure could use a little good news today. (Fade.)