Is America Ready? (Cover version)

Joan Manners and Brett Bayne massacre Roy Zimmerman's wonderfully satirical song "Is America Ready?" found on his CD "Thanks for the Support." The lyrics:

IS AMERICA READY
Words & music by Roy Zimmerman
Watunes (BMI) adm. by Bug Music
Copyright 2008

Lyndon Johnson escalated and called his daughter Lynda Bird
Richard Nixon lied and cheated and recorded every word
Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon and hit a golf ball that nailed a guy
Is America ready
Is America ready
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant
president...

Again

Jimmy Carter faced a crisis, botched a rescue, lost his cred.
Ronald Reagan said that ketchup was a vegetable... 'nuff said
George the Elder gave us Dan Quayle, Clarence Thomas, and the phrase "plausible
deniability"

Is America ready
Is America ready
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant
president?

Every little bit of social progress has been written into U.S. law
By the upright, uptight, rich white guy in authority
Only after it was bought and paid for and made impossible for him to ignore
By the blood, sweat and tears of women and/or a minority

So is America ready for a woman president?
Yes
Is America ready for a black president?
Yes
Is American ready for a gay president?
Buchanan, hello!

Howard Taft was so fat he got stuck in a bathtub...

Well, Bill Clinton smoked a stogie with an intern he came across
George the Lesser, what can I say that I haven't written 40 songs about already
This has only been a problem for a couple hundred 32 years

Is America ready
Is America ready
Is America ready for a rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant
president?

Are you ready, America
Are you ready for yet another rich, white, straight, male, Anglo-Saxon,
Protestant president?

Vote Huckabee!

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• Joan
• Manners
• Brett
• Bayne
• Roy
• Zimmerman
• Is
• America
• Ready

[mollificent]

Brett...the exasperated way you say "AGAIN!" cracks me up. :)

[ittehgapsytterb]

Thank you. And I love your Roy covers too. You are exceptionally talented (unlike me).

[RoyZimmerman]

WOOT!

[RoyZimmerman]

BTW - Spectacular guitar work, Joan! And Brett, thanks for the vote of confidence at the end. Frankly, I'd rather run for office and win than be elected and have to serve.

[maynardyorke]

wonderful cover of one of my favorites from roy

[MrDanielbrodd]

Hi, great work! Love roy and you did an awesome duet. Could you maybe mail me the chords, try to see all of them from your video but can't really keep up. Thanks!

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[vedadtrbonja]

cool I can see the chords on this one!! TNX

[arachnophile01]

This song is reat as a duet, and thanks for clarifying the buchannan thing.

[09bassman]

And what do you think about Obama?!

[unhooked25]

Well done!!! 1488

[grekito]

The time for protestants to rule is Over is time for The Catholics to RULE

[redfoxbennaton]

Oh you. Silly hippies.