BLAME BLOOMBERG - 'Eight Is Enough' Part VIII

Have fun with this one -- use your
imagination and become the spoken
word artist in you as you recite this!

BLAME BLOOMBERG

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson
(rap and rhyme)

You say Wall Street just fell on you?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg!
And Main Street just got bulldozed too?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.
Your job is gone, your apartment too?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

You can’t afford to pay the rent?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
You work all day but can’t save a cent!
Don’t blame Bill blame Bloomberg.

Your water and electricity’s high?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.
And public jobs are privatized?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
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Wall Street exec screw up but are still hired
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.
They get millions in bonuses while you get fired.
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

Times, Post, Fox Five TV the truth they hoard
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Cause Rupert Murdock’s on Bloomberg’s board
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
So you won’t ever know what’s really happened
Til it’s too late and you’ve been ripped off and flattened

Housing costs are too damned high!
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Banks ignore you, foreclosures make you cry.
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

You and your family are on the street
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.
You can’t buy food, can’t make ends meet.
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

NEW YORKERS SAID 8 IS ENOUGH!!
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Bloomberg ignored you and said that’s tough!
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

If he gets re-elected
And the middleclass keeps being neglected,
Walked on, pushed out, disrespected, on the shelf
Don’t blame Bill, blame YOURSELF

Bill Thompson gave you a better plan
For middle class and working families he stands
Can he save New Yorkers?
If we elect him, Yes he can!

You say you live on the Upper East Side?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
You feel you’ve been taken for a ride?
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

Your quality of living has started to slide
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.
You’re doing menial jobs that insult your pride
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

High test scores don’t prove good education
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Our kids can’t meet the world competition
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

They need substance, not just form
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Or mediocrity becomes the norm
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

Harlem is where you used to stay
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Til they took the affordable apartments away
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

For a Harlem studio $750 Grand you’ll pay
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Or ride the homeless bus to no where -- one way
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

He’s building overpriced high rises of glass
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Destroying beautiful buildings with all the class
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

The Yankees Stadium got reconstruction
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
While the surrounding neighbors face destruction
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

If you can’t get from here to there
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg,
‘Cause they keep raising the transit fare.
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg.

You just can’t afford four more years
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg
Because you’ll be shedding more than tears
Don’t blame Bill, blame Bloomberg

I don’t have to be a wise sooth sayer
To say you’ll need more than a prayer
If you re-elect Mike Bloomberg mayor
Don’t blame Bill, BLAME YOURSELF!

Bill Thompson gave you a better plan
For middle class and working families he stands
He can save New Yorkers from this man
Let’s elect him so he can!
And get rid of Bloomberg

No matter how much he spends his money
Your chances of getting any are slim and none-y
Your eyes may shine and your teeth may grit
But not one program will you get
His promises turn out to be vapid lies
This my warning word to the wise
It’s clear that we’ve each only got one vote
If you blow this that’s all she wrote
New York can do better without Bloomberg.

We’re coming to the end of this little ditty
I wrote it because I love New York City
For a mayor who cares vote for Bill Thompson
He’ll save New York and get the job done
And once again make New York Number One
Or perish as fools under Bloomberg.

VOTE BILL THOMPSON FOR MAYOR 2009
AND EVERYTHING WILL TURN OUT FINE.

BLAME BLOOMBERG - 'Eight Is Enough' Part VIII

Stay Blessed and Eclectically Black,

Gloria Dulan-Wilson