Soldiers fear Warship,
Labourers hardship,
Demons fellowship,
Tribes citizenship,
Chaos leadership
Thugs Governorship
Loners long friendship
Fat Guys sportsmanship
Backbenchers headship
Men secretaryship:
Another man's Worship...
Fear is a spread thing
Mine fails not to ring.
Governor Terry Twinkle ** ** not his real name (ha, ha)
Over us did sprinkle
Some clumsy, inadept sprinkle
How'd he win the governorship?
His opponent's racism he ripped
Now it's Twinkle
Whose wings've been clipped --
Appearing in a photo
That he shouldn't have ought to
In blackface beside a Ku Klux Klanner
We insist he resign
He responds with this whine --
To err is human; I'm not divine
Alabama’s Governor: My Way or No Way
By Elton Camp
In office only for the second day,
Governor says do religion his way
The deacon in the Baptist Church
Wants us not to be left in the lurch
He says, “I want to be your brother,”
But it requires his belief and no other
And Jesus as savior you have to accept
Or into the deep abyss you’ll be swept
If you want to be my brother or my sister
Then listen to me, M’am, Ms or Mister
If Jew, Shinto, Buddhist, agnostic or Islam
Then the wrong way I say that you’ve come
People thought a governor they’d elected
A statewide pastor they had not expected
To his personal belief the man has a right
Speaking as governor, keep it out of sight
He apologized, but not for the thing he said
Will his tenets the man continue to spread?
If his “core beliefs” made anybody get mad,
As a “born-again Christian” it’s just too bad
It was a wrong way his governorship to begin
Alabama’s unsavory past had come to an end
But what does our brand new governor then do
Except hateful prejudice to promptly renew?
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