Orland Carra and Linda Voelker call us to action with a musical parody based on the cartoon, “Underdog.” In addition to regularly raising awareness about important issues through written word, Voters Speak ISSUES A CHALLENGE to Get Out the Vote with your creative endeavors. Create your own video and share with Voters Speak and the Rowan County Democratic Party. Borrow the words from this parody of the UnderDog cartoon, or create your own version with your generational twist or favorite music genre. View this video on the Rowan County Democratic Party YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/kj84tfgITtg
Voters Speak, musical notation by Orland Carra, Words by Orland Carra & Pam Bloom
Intro: Bass Notes E G A C B A (repeat x 2)
Voice Ah-oo
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E A A A B C B A
When lead-ers in this world ap-pear
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E B B B C B A Ab
And break the laws that they should fear
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E Ab Ab Ab A B A Ab
And cit – i – zens re-fuse to hear
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E A A A A C C C D
The cry goes up both far and near for
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E E E A A A E E E Ab Ab Ab
Vot-ers speak, vot-ers speak, vot-ers speak, vot-ers speak
Am E7 Am E7
A E A E C C C C A E A E C C C C
Speed-y typ-ing, cru-cial hou-r, bold-ly speak-ing truth to pow-er
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E E E A A A E E E Ab Ab Ab
Vot-ers speak, vot-ers speak, vo-ters speak, vo-ters speak
Repeat Intro: E G A C B A (repeat x 2)
Ah-oo Ah-oo
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E A A A B C B A
With in-for-ma-tion of-ten wrong
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E B B B C B A Ab
And some de-cide ‘just go a – long’
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It’s time to speak and stand up strong
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Re-mind all that their votes be-long with Repeat Chorus
Orland Carra