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Roll Up Roll Up the circus is in town….

Casey

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 How about we all pay a little more tax
Put our money with our talk
Charge less for CD’s that we sell
Shut our gobs and walk the walk
How brave to fly to Africa
And show the world we really care
Then buy a Lear jet pollute the skies
All the way home to quaint Bel Air

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 The latest cause we must promote
And wear our wristies with such pride
Er yes they’re made in an Asian Sweat Box
But sweetie poverty comes at a price
So speak up and out and sell yer records
Fashions latest HUG A CHILD
Drop names like bombs and look away
And moan when yer ratings start to slide

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Buy a football club then sell it
Keep the profits grab the stage
And show the world yer really serious
SOOOO right on, still past yer age
Its all a joke but no one’s laughing
Gordon Brown the latest craze
Waits in the wings as yet untainted
Live8…..oh yeah….its that time again.

Notes

“Pitt interview cheered by anti-poverty activists

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Brad Pitt’s plea in a television interview this week for increased aid to poor countries and footage of him with children in Ethiopia are being credited with raising interest in a global anti-poverty campaign.

Viewers may have tuned in to Tuesday’s interview on ABC with Pitt hoping for some juicy tidbits about Angelina Jolie, co-star of his new movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” but his humanitarian pitch apparently made a bigger impression.

Since the “Primetime Live” broadcast, more than 120,000 people have gone online to sign a petition urging President George W. Bush to pledge an additional 1 percent of the U.S. budget to humanitarian assistance and to prod fellow world leaders to follow suit, according to organizers of the One Campaign.

“It was a huge surge from weeks prior,” One Campaign spokeswoman Jenny Volanakis told Reuters on Friday. “The increase (in petitioners) was so dramatic that they are able to directly attribute it to” Pitt’s TV appearance.

She said the anti-poverty effort has collected more than 900,000 e-mail registrations since the campaign was launched in April.

Pitt, along with such celebrities as U2 lead singer Bono and rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, is a leading spokesman for the One Campaign, which is timed to coincide with next month’s meeting of leaders from eight industrialized countries in Scotland.

The campaign is closely linked with a series of all-star “Live 8” benefit concerts organized by veteran charity rocker Bob Geldof in Philadelphia and several European capitals — London, Rome and Berlin.

The Pitt interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer came amid promotions for his new movie and a media frenzy about the recent breakup of his marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and the nature of his relationship with co-star Jolie.

Questions about his personal life were touted in advance by ABC as highlights of his interview. But the broadcast focused on Pitt’s involvement in anti-poverty causes and his recent tour of Africa.

During the program, Pitt expressed exasperation that Americans seemed more interested in “my relationship mishaps” than Africa’s humanitarian crisis.

The hour-long interview drew 11.2 million viewers, making it one of the week’s most watched U.S. broadcasts.”

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/roll-up-roll-up-the-circus-is-in-town/