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Show Do you get the smell of rubber as the gum shoes hit the ground? Do you recognize the durham in the "bull" they're passing 'round? If you don't, bo not deceived, there's nothing new beneath the sun It's the pre-election promise and it goes to everyone. every-one. "You know I've always been your friend and you could call on me For anything I ever had, and1 you just wait and see , What it will mean to you when I'm elected, listen now, There's nothing to it, take my word and I will show you how To get in right and kill it kid, you can pack off the dough If you go to It and work hard and stick around, you know." How often. O, how often have we heard it, and again, From every party every time and all the party men. From that early day when Antony thrice put aside the crown To the afternoon when Abie Reuff shook all the restaurants down; From the time that Mr. Richelieu made Louis eat the crow. To the day that Fussy Jimmy bought a new wine press from Hoe, - From the time Confuscious voted twice, till Smoot got in the game The surreptitious whisper has been very much , the same; And the pledges will have vanished when election day is o'er, With the pre-election promise would I like one? Nevermore! |