Obamas' March 18 speech "A More Perfect Union"

[niyabinghi]

If you haven't read the transcript or watched the full (34?) minute video, you need to. Anyone my age on my fl -- any of you remember the last time you heard a speech like this; that's real, not slick, both challenging and inspiring?-- I don't

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Barack Obama Song by Cocoa Tea

[crazyten10]

Yours are the only lyrics for the Cocoa Tea Barack Obama song on the internet. Some of the lines were a little wrong. Here are the corrections (with *). Please update the lyrics on the Obama 2008 group post. You Rock!

*Well dis is not about class
Nor color, race, nor creed--
*Make no mistake its the changes
*We’ all the people dem need
*Dem a shout out--

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

Now you can hear it in the morning --- Obama!
*And you can hear it in a de evening --- Obama!
Black man and white woman shouting --- Obama!
*Dem inna de groove and dem is movin --- Obama!
And you can hear dem say ---

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

*The momentum is hot
And no one can stop that
Well some a dem a just bark
*And some a take back dem chat
*All some a dem who was racist
*Jumpin & dancin in the street
*An a shout out--

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

It is not Hilary Clinton,
*And It is not John McCain,
It's not Chuck Norris,
I know it's not John Wayne!
It's not the one Rambo!
And it is not the Terminator!
*But ah de new trendsetter--
*‘Im mashing up de whole America (meaning, he’s taking America by storm)
*And dem a shout out--

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

African-Americans rise,
And keep your eyes on the prize, Obama!
*Cuz now nuffa dem a realize--
A black man is in their eyes, Obama!

Well it's no joke and it's a fact
*We're gonna paint up de White House black
*And I can't believe it's true--
*A black come fi run the Red White and Blue!

*Dem a shout it--
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
*Dem say
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

*Me callin de live red Indians
*We’ live upon the reservations
The Japanese and all the Chinamen,
The Indian and all the Mexicans
Arabs and Jews and Palestinians
*A time fi we join up as one
And shout out --

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Shout
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!

'Cause this is not about class
nor color race nor creed,
It's all about the changes
We’ de Americans need
So whether you come from California,
or live in North Dakota,
*You coulda come from you come from Texas,
*Or you living in a Florida

*I want you join dis a line here
*And let me hear you start shout
*You shout out---

Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!
Shout
Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama, Barack, Obama -- Woy! Woy!