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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 12:38 PM
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Shona Laing - Glad I'm not a Kennedy
 
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Posted on DU: August 26, 2009
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It's been tough being a Kennedy in recent days with the passing of a whole generation of them happening the last few weeks.


Part of me is glad I'm not a Kennedy, but I think we ALL want to be "a Kennedy" to help us get health care reform passed soon!
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 12:40 PM
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1. Wow
I haven't thought about this song in years. Thanks!
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:57 PM
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2. Here are the lyrics...
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 02:01 PM by cascadiance
I also posted this earlier for another youtube entry of the same song when Teddy first got his cancer, but it is now archived and DU won't let you repost the same youtube video twice. Here's one that doesn't chop out the intro.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x138496

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/shona_laing_lyrics_34561/other_lyrics_65448/glad_im_not_a_kennedy_lyrics_644338.html

Shona Laing - (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy lyrics
Artist: Shona Laing lyrics
Album: Other Song Lyrics
Title: (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy

Lyrics to (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy:
Living on through politics
Body-guarded, heart in bits
A blue-eyed honesty
Indigo injury
The family tree is felled
Bereavement worn so well
Giving up on certainty
Wilderness society

Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy

Imagine being a Kennedy
Rule without remedy
To watch your family die
The world loves a sacrifice
Prophets longing for the three
Honouring the tragedy
They hunger for the crime
The privilege to take a life

Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
Ooh, I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy

"And is not peace basically
A matter of human rights?
The right to live out our lives
Without fear of devastation?
The right to breathe air
As nature provided it?
The right of future generations
To a healthy existence?
Let us if we can step back from
The shadows of war and seek out
The way of peace"

I love the look in your eyes
I can see your soul sometimes
And we laugh
When we try too hard we stop and start
Oh imagine being a Kennedy
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy

Wearing the fame like a loaded gun
Tied up with a rosary
I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy

Imagine being a Kennedy
Ooh I'm glad I'm not a Kennedy

"The cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose
- that is the path of surrender
Or submission.
When a man's way please the lord,
The scriptures tell us,
'He maketh even his enemies
To be at peace with him'
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily
Risk the course of worldwide nuclear war
In which even the fruits of victory
Would be ashes in our mouths
Ashes in our mouths...
Ashes in our mouths...
Ashes in our mouths"
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