THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
Kennedy doesn’t take any guff
Chapter 146
And so the years rolled by,
2cUntil finally it became necessary to wake up Ike,
2Because it was time for another election,
3Which happens every four years or so,
4Whether the Yanks are paying any attention or not.
5This time, they were paying attention,
6dBecause the Democrats were running an Irish Catholic for president,
7Named eJohn F. Kennedy,
8Who was honest and great,
9Because he went to Harvard,
10fJust like Franklin Roosevelt.
11Even so, the Yanks had a hard time trying to vote for him,
12gBecause all the Yanks knew about Irish Catholics,
13hAnd how all they ever wanted to do was party and pick fights,
14And hit on women all the time,
15And make money from dirty businesses like ibootlegging and such,
16And how dishonest and corrupt they were in politics,
17And how they’d smile and lie right in your face,
18Like all jIrish Catholics everywhere,
19Except that Kennedy wasn’t that kind of Irish Catholic,
20At all,
21Because he was honest and great,
22And so good-looking too,
23kAnd not at all like the shifty-eyed crook he was running against,
24Which explains why Kennedy won the election by more than a hundred thousand votes,
25And proves that the Yanks aren’t prejudiced after all,
26Unless it doesn’t.
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