The Great McGinty
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She always used to say,
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"You'll be strong enough someday."
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I knew it was wrong, see, but I liked the way
it made me look in her eyes and the kids.

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So...
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One day I said,
"All right. I'm strong enough now."

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(Laughs)
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In a pig's ear I was strong enough.
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(Cheering)
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Look what he done to our lake front,
look what he done to our city.

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For our city.
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Look what he done for you and you and you.
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The worst crook we've had
since the year of the big win.

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The least you can do, friends,
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the smallest token of gratitude
that you can show,

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is to send him to the capital.
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I'm giving it to you straight, friends.
You owe him that.

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Senator Honeywell on the other hand,
my friends,

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You won't be making no mistake, friends.
And I'll tell you something else...

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Now just compare them, coolly,
without prejudice.

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On the one hand, we have virtue.
On the other...

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...year alone, he put 40,000 men to work.
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He gutted the treasury.
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40,000 lunch pails, my friends.
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He raided the city.
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40,000 happy families.
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He raised the taxes.
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Money in circulation, prosperity.
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He built miles of useless buildings,
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bridges, beaches.
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Eyesores, my friends.
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Each and every one of them a monument,
a testimonial to graft.


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