Mitch Daniels - David Rovics

Mitch Daniels was the governor of Indiana Now he is the president of Purdue

But back when he was governor he asked his staff

To look into what they might be able to do

He said now that this old man has kicked the bucket

Can we finally stop taking it on the chin?

Can we find an excuse, whatever one will work

To ban all the books of Howard Zinn

I want to ban them, he said, from the libraries

I want to ban them from each curriculae

Ban them from the grade schools, ban them from the high schools

Ban them from each college syllabae

And quietly the books started disappearing There in the heartland of the free

But, oops, now we know, because his emails are public

And were discovered by a reporter from AP

They’re banning books in Indiana The governor wants to censor what you read

Because a patriotic history of half-truths and lies Is all the history you need

The story hit the presses, at least a bit And Mitch Daniels then denied the

truth

Which is funny because that’s just like the diet of nonsense

Mr. Daniels would feed to the youth

American democracy is the best in the world

And everything is going according to plan

And any pesky historians who want to expose that crap

It’s time to burn and censor and ban!

Because students can’t handle reality It needs to be bleached and masticated

Red, white and blue are the colors for Mitch

Shades of grey are too complicated

Columbus discovered America, it’s the world’s best democracy

And America always wins

And if sometimes things don’t quite go the way they should

Jesus will forgive our sins