A Little Good News Song Lyrics and Chords by Anne Murray
A Little Good News
Recorded by Anne Murray
Written by Charles Black, Rory Bourke, and Thomas Rocco
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I rolled out this morning kids had the
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morning news show on
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Bryant Gumbel was talking bout the fighting in Le
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banon
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Some senator was squawking about the bad ec
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onomy
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worse you see we need a change in
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policy
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There's a local paper rolled
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up in a rubber band
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One more sad story's one more than
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I can stand
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Just once how I'd like to see the
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headline
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print today can't find nothing
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bad to say
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Nobody robbed a liquor store on the
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lower part of town
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Nobody OD'd nobody burned a
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single building down
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Nobody fired a shot in anger
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nobody had to die in vain
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We sure could use a
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little good news
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I'll come home this evening I'll
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bet that the news will be the same
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Somebody takes a hostage somebody steals a
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plane
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How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a
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county
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cleaned up the air how everybody
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learned to care
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Whoa tell me nobody was assassinated in the
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whole good world today
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And in the streets of Ireland all the children
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had to do was play
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And everybody loves everybody in the
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good old USA
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We sure could use a
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little good news
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today
FAQ
Who sang the the song A Little Good News?
- The song A Little Good News was sang by Anne Murray.
Who is Anne Murray?
- Morna Anne Murray (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Her albums consisting primarily of pop, country, and adult contemporary music have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her over 40-year career.Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. She is also the first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.
Murray has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.In 2011, Billboard ranked her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists Ever.
