Al Franken's Voting Song

Was at the Al Franken broadcast today( live in Cambridge, Ma.) and he sang a song... which I'm gonna share with you.

As I had to explain to a freind- I will explain to my reader(s?) that the nugget of thought behind this is that lines are gonna be long today but you HAVE to stay and have your vote counted.

Lyrics

Bring a book, Bring a Book, when you go to vote
You might be in line all day
You might as well make the most of it
and read the time away

You can memorize the dictonary
As you wait to vote for Kerry
Or if yer votin' for the guy who don't read
God help us where that line might lead

Reading's educational
Reading can be fun
You could look through the Hubble telescope
and not see where the line's begun

Bring a book, Bring a book, when you go to vote
Oh lordy, it's a long long line
You can read everything by Steven King
When you're done with his, read mine

Read how to shape
your tummy
And how to vote
for dummies

Cause if yer votin' for that texas dummy
the line has prob'ly passed you by

You can read the whole works of Shakespeare
in a snap they'll be completed
Believe me, in the Florida polls
you'll have plenty of time to read it

You can read all of world hist'ry
as told by the Durants
You can read all of Dostoyevsky
and Captain Underpants

You can read all the yellow pages
as well as the white ones
not only you can read a book
heck, you got time to write one

Bring a book when you vote in Ohio too
Like the bio of John Glenn
And after you've finished my last book
you can read the first one again

Those endless lines aren't as long as they look
as long as you bring a book