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
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