Bumper Sticker President
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A bumper sticker for a better president. Instead of a person, elect a song. This is actually a sticker for the song, “If a Song Could be President” by the band Over the Rhine — Bergquist & Detweiler being the two main band members. It’s easily one of the most clever songs I’ve ever listened to.
If a song could be president
We’d hum on Election Day
The gospel choir would start to sway
And we’d all have a part to playThe first lady would free her hips
Pull a microphone to her lips
Break our hearts with Rhythm and Blues
Steve Earle would anchor the newsWe’d vote for a melody
Pass it around on an MP3
All our best foreign policy
Would be built on harmonyIf a song could be president
We’d fly a jukebox to the moon
All our founding fathers’ 45’s
Lightnin’ Hopkins and Patsy Cline
If a song could be presidentIf a song could be president
We could all add another verse
Life would teach us to rehearse
Till we found a key changeBreak out of this minor key
Half-truths and hypocrisy
We wouldn’t need an underachiever-in-chief
If a song could be presidentWe’d make Neil Young a Senator
Even though he came from Canada
Emmylou would be Ambassador
World leaders would listen to herThey would show us where our country went wrong
Strum their guitars on the White House lawn
John Prine would run the FBI
All the criminals would laugh and cry
If a song could be president
