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From: jenkinda@pirates.Armstrong.EDU (Daniel Jenkins)
Subject: "I'm Just A Bill" - School House Rock
Date: 19 Nov 1996 11:23:37 -0500


                          "I'm Just A Bill"
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			  School House Rock


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(Kid) "Whew!  You sure gotta' climb a lotta' steps to get to this Capitol
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      building here in Washinton!  Well, I wonder who that sad little scrap

      of paper is?"

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I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill
             C7
Well it's a long, long journey to the capitol city.  It's a long, long wait
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while I'm sittin' in committee - but I know I'll be a law someday, at least
       Em   F                       Eb                      C
I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.


            G      Am      G
(Kid) "Gee, Bill, you certainly have a lot of patience and courage."

(Bill) "Well, I got this far.  When I started I wasn't even a bill, I was

       just an idea.  Some folks back home decided they wanted a law passed,
								   C7
       so they called their local congressman and he said, 'You're right,

       there ought to be a law.'  Then he sat down, wrote me out, and

       introduced me to Congress, and I became a bill - and I'll remain a
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       bill until they decide to make me a law."


G
I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I got as far as Capitol Hill.
	      C7
Well now, I'm stuck in committee, and I'll sit here and wait, while a
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few key congressmen discuss and debate whether they should let me be a law.
	   Em7  F
How I hope and pray that they will, but today I am still just a bill.


       G
(Kid) "Listen to those congressmen arguing!  Is all that discussion and debate

      about you?"

(Bill) "Yeah, I one of the lucky ones.  Most bills never get this far.  I
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       hope they decide to report favorably, otherwise I may die."

(Kid) "Die?"
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(Bill) "Yeah, die in committee.  Ooh, but it looks like I'm gonna' live.
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       Now I go to the House of Represenatives and they vote on me."
	C7
(Kid) "If they vote 'Yes,' what happens?"
		G
(Bill) "Then I go to the Senate and the whole thing starts all over again."
	D
(Kid) "Oh, no."

(Bill) "Oh, yes!"


G
I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
	       C7
well, then I'm off to the White House, where I'll wait in a line with a lot
						     D
of other bills for the President to sign, and if he signs me then I'll be a law
           Em7  F			Eb		      C
How I hope and pray that he will, but today I am still just a bill.


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(Kid) "You mean, even if the whole Congress says you should be a law,
	G
      the President can still say no?"

(Bill) "Yes.  That's called a 'veto.'  If the President vetoes me, I'll

       have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that

       time you're so old, you...
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(Kid) "By that time it's very unlikely that you'll become a law.  It's not

      easy to become a law, is it?"

(Bill) "No..."

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But how I hope and pray that I will, but today I am still just a bill.


(Congressman) "He signed you, Bill.  Now you're a law."

(Bill) "Oh yes!"


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      .   Dan Jenkins, Jr.                (jenkinda@pirates.armstrong.edu)
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