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We Are All Immigrants, You Shmucks

from Guess I Picked The Wrong Week To Quit Sniffing Glue by Lauren Mayer

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I thought this was a country that welcomed in the strangers
The huddled masses yearning to be free
But lately politicians have been screaming about dangers
Which have no basis in reality
So as this issue's heating up in politics today
To those xenophobes Ild like to say

We are mostly all immigrants you shmucks
What's with your cluelessness & arrogance?
Pretending history doesn't exist
We are all immigrants you shmucks, except for Native Americans
Who have good reason to be really pissed
Stop insulting our neighbors like uneducated clucks
Cause we're (mostly) all immigrants you shmucks

Immigrants have come here in search of better lives
Or escaping wars and horrors they've been through
And as is clearly proven by a couple of Trump's wives
Immigrants do jobs the rest of us won't do
Trump's xenophobic speeches have most thinking people squirmin'
Maybe they sounded better in the original German

We are all immigrants, you shmucks - despite the way Ann Coulter raves
If she won't shut up could she at least lower her voice
We are mostly all immigrants, you shmucks
Except for native Americans & descendants of slaves
Who ancesters didn't exactly come here by choice
You know you're in the wrong when you're endorsed by the Ku Klux(Klan) (it rhymes)
And we're (mostly) all immigrants you shmucks

You platitudes and slogans recall us at our worst
Look up the hist'ry of Charles Lindbergh and "Amer'ca First"
So much damage done back then with anti-immigrant hysteria
Ann Frank today would be a girl from Syria

We are all immigrants you shmucks, so stop these nativist attacks
They're unAmerican, they're hateful and unfair
We are (mostly) all immigrants you shmucks, most immigrants pay a lot more tax
Than a certain blow-hard, orange-faced billionaire
My song's not just for yucks - of my point here's the crux
Stop stirring up the muck with violent rhetoric that sucks
Remember, we are (mostly) all immigrants you shmucks!

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from Guess I Picked The Wrong Week To Quit Sniffing Glue, released December 1, 2016

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Lauren Mayer San Mateo, California

Lauren Mayer (a.k.a. Psycho Super Mom) is a political comedy satiric songwriter who writes weekly topical songs about politics, life, and sleep deprivation. She is an award-winning songwriter/ cabaret performer & a graduate of Yale University, and her mother still doesn't understand why she didn't go to law school. ... more

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