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A holiday gift to all public radio listeners. Because we love them. And because they show their love for us, even though they don't have to.
Written and performed by Sean Corcoran and Brian Morris, reporters at WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station in Massachusetts.
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A holiday gift to all public radio listeners. Because we love them. And because they show their love for us, even though they don't have to.
Written and performed by Sean Corcoran and Brian Morris, reporters at WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station in Massachusetts.
Transcript
It’s Time For Our pledge Drive
(sung to the tune of “Away in a Manger”)
It’s time for our pledge drive, donations we seek
Didn’t we just finish up one last week?
It’s easy with our volunteers standing by
Just call us, we promise we won’t bleed you dry.
Give what feels comfortable, pony up cash
Try not to worry as stock markets crash
Forget about vanishing 401-K’s
Dig deep in your pockets, contribute today.
We’re earnest, we’re funny, and sometimes we’re smug
A mere hundred dollars gets you this great mug
Our valuable service you can’t get for free
Unlike those executives from A.I.G.
Help us in hitting that pledge drive home run
Five bucks a week, it won’t break anyone
We keep you connected, we broaden your mind
We gave you Obama, now it’s payback time.
The phones, they aren’t ringing, we’ll have to extend
Our fundraising til March of 2010.
But we could...
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