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Do they really count as rhyming? I wasn't sure.

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Sung to the tune of Don't Fence Me In.

Give me links lots of links give me shiny links of steel Please fence us in Build a wall through this broad paranoia that we feel Just fence us in

Let us be by ourselves behind the razor wire And turn back Coyotes lest we open fire Seal us off forever til that race retires...Just fence us in.

Just pour concrete till it straddles that old saddle on the border line Won't it be sweet when it wanders over yonder Keeping them from taking mine?

Sure you can say we're anachronistic, but that will never stop us being jingoistic This wall is being built upon a crass statistic

Just fence us in

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"Now obviously other things were involved" sounds so much cleaner than "were willing to mow down their own fellow citizens with machine guns." It also has the effect of putting an asterisk into the speech, where we all know good and well the teabaggers hate asterisks! (There's usually just a bunch more dry boring facts involved.)

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that room looks and sounds like hell on earth.

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A wall won't work. Mexicans seeking a better life will build balloons and float over the border. Their stories will be lovingly told in the Hispanic version of Reader's Digest. The Mexican version of Paul Harvey will talk on his show about the plucky and brave lovers of freedom seeking freedom picking grapes. For wine.

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