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i like ike (1952) - joe glazer lyrics

[intro: joe glazer]
“and twenty years of democratic rule, th*the republicans’re getting de*desperate, they finally got the key. they, they dumped the old, traditional republicans, dewey and bob taft, who was ready to become president in 1952, and they turned to a hero. he was the hero of world war two, dwight eisenhower. now ‘eisenhower’ might be a little tough to put into a song, but ‘ike’—ah, that’s nice. ‘i like ikе.’ now, america’s great songwriter, irving bеrlin, he liked ike. and he says, ‘ike, here’s a song,’ and he presented it to the eisenhower campaign, ‘i like ike,’ and magpie will sing it to ya.”

[verse 1: magpie]
i like ike
i’ll shout it over a mike
or a phone
or from the highest steeple

[verse 2: magpie]
i like ike
and ike is easy to like
stands alone
the choice of we the people

[verse 3: magpie]
a leader we can call
without political noise
he can lead us all
as he led the boys

[verse 4: magpie]
let’s take ike
a man we all of us like
makes no deals
his favors can’t be curried
and uncle joe is worried
’cause we like ike
[outro: joe glazer & audience]
“does everybody know that reference to ‘uncle joe was worried’, who was he talking about? (“stalin, joe stalin”) “joe stalin, sure, uncle joe stalin is worried because we like ike.”

- joe glazer lyrics

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