Celine Dion’s “You and I” got her campaign through Iowa and beyond. However, the Canadian singer’s music had to be abandoned as the candidate danced the NAFTA flip-flop through blue collar union gigs in Ohio.
Music from Big Head Todd and the Monsters blared through the next several contests.
Indiana brought out Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” and Slick Willy was banished to North Carolina after he day-dreamed too much about women with big hair.
Now we’re in West Virginia. What else would we expect from the consummate morphing candidate? Yes, a little Loretta!
“Well I was born a coal miner's daughter in a cabin on a hill in Butcher HollerWe were poor but we had love that's the one thing daddy made sure ofHe shovel coal to make a poor man's dollar
“Daddy worked all night in the Vanleer coal mine all day long in the field hoein' cornMommie rocked the baby that night read the Bible by a coal oil lightAnd everything would start all over come break of morn
“Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's payMommie scrubbed our clothes on a wash board everydayI've seen her fingers bleed to complain there was no needShe's smile in mommie's understanding way
“In the summer time we didn't have shoes to wearBut in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pairFrom themail order catalog money made by selling a hogDaddy always managed to get the money somewhere
“I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well the well where I drew waterThe work we done was hard at night we'd sleep for we were tiredI never thought I'd ever leave Butcher Holler
“But a lots of things have changed since the way back thenAnd it's so good to be back home againNot much but the floor nothing lives there anymoreJust the mem'ries of a coal miner's daughter"
Give me a little Stevie Wonder and let's put this process behind us.
End the Drama; Elect Obama!!
