Here Come the T’anks
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Album:Greatest Hits/There's A Riot Going...
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Track:Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
In a calendar oddity that happens every seven years or so, my birthday has fallen on Thanksgiving – our annual celebration of colonization and genocide. Just kidding. It’s our national holiday devoted to over-indulgence and sloth. Just kidding. It’s a chance for the citizens of America to express gratitude over the limitless bounty that we enjoy here in the greatest, most civilized and charitable country in the world. (Ha. I mean, yum!)It’s actually sort of fitting on my birthday to offer thanks for the freedom and opportunity that this land, from sea to shining sea, has given to me. I was born and raised by loving parents in a nation that let me grow up, succeed, and be myself in all of my idiosyncratic glory. As Larry David would say, that’s pret-ty, pret-ty good…Or, as Sly would put it:
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