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Thread #115829   Message #2696224
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Aug-09 - 02:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Like Ike (Joe Glazer)(& Irving Berlin)
Subject: ADD: I Like Ike (Irving Berlin)
And here's one more, recorded by Oscar Brand on his CD, Presidential Campaign Songs, 1789-1996

I LIKE IKE
(Irving Berlin, 1950, 1952)

I like Ike, I'll shout it over a mike,
Or a phone, or from the highest steeple.
I like Ike, and Ike is easy to like,
Stands alone, the choice of We the People.
A leader we can call without political noise.
He can lead us all, as he led the boys.
Let's take Ike, a man we all of us like,
Makes no deals, his favors can't be curried.
And Uncle Joe is worried, 'cause we like Ike.

Page 287, Songs America Voted By, edited by Irwin Silber, 1971.
MIDI available on request.


So, I suppose some of you Young People out there might need to know that "Uncle Joe" was Joseph Stalin.