[Newspoetry] WAL-MART ANNOUNCES MANDATORY ANTHEM

[Paul Kotheimer]

2 OCTOBER 1999
(Associated Poets)

The Wal-Mart international supermarket chain announced today that all 
"associates" shall sing the new "Wal-Mart Associates Mandatory 
International Anthem," at the beginning of every shift.  Lyrics and 
chords are reproduced here.  Sheet music is available on request via Paul 
Kotheimer <herringb at prairienet.org>, faithful commercial songwriter, 
newspoet, and devoted WAL-MART shopper.

When contacted, Kotheimer's mamagement declined to comment on the 
royalties the songwriter will receive for each on-the-job performance of 
the new anthem.  Expert music industry sources estimate that, at 1.3 
cents per singing clock-in, the performance royalties should total $2.14 
million per year.  


WAL-MART ASSOCIATES' MANDATORY INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM

(c) 1999 Paul Kotheimer
(P) 1999 the hand-made record label
*PLEASE NOTE that a line break in the text is not necessarily a 
measure-break in the music. 
                                    [ --marching tempo]

4/4|C                |G7             |
    God  bless our   SuperStore!

|G7    		|C                 | 
God  bless our   mall!

|F                                 |C                 
God bless the chain that sends our wages down the drain

           |D7                          | G       Gmaj7 G7
while de- stroying local business and cor-rupting City Hall,


      |C             |G7 
LORD, let us build a SuperStore

              |C       G7        C       Dm    C/E | F    | .\. 
such that the cinder blocks and concrete touch the  skies! --

                  | C   F   C   
Our community will have no voice,

             | C   F    C
The town will have no choice,

            |C    G7   |C                          :|| 
And we will never union-ize!  (sing it again, O...)



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