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23 October 2011

In God We Trust

What’s the secret to this country?
We’ve got God on our money.
And we worship God alone
Are you forgetting here is the home
Of the brave and the free and
To live well all you need
Are as many
In God We Trust funds
As you can put your hands on.

Good lord, we trust our SUVs, court fees, golf tees,
house keys, corn seeds, poison weeds…
In the land of milk and honey,
We’ve got God on our money,
All for me, all for one,
Shooting guns, just for fun,
It’s manifest destiny never done

Because we declare this truth to be self-evident
That God has blessed America
with promised lands we promised to stay out of
But with God on our cash
Making a fortune is no trespass
It’s our God-given right
to pursue our happiness with all our might.

One nation under God, we
Resolutely stayed the course
We were the first ones in the store
And on our way to victory
We stepped over her trampled body
But, sweet Jesus, we won liberty
For our hearts and minds – a free Wii.

So by all that is true and holy,
Put your faith in the one, the only,
The almighty, God Bless-ed
The United States of America
Federal Reserve Note.

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