Canadian country music paragon Anne Murray’s hit song “A Little Good News was released in September of 1983. It was the lead single from her album of the same name and her seventh No.1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart.
“A Little Good News” won the Grammy Award for ‘Best Country Vocal Performance’ in 1984 and was named the CMA’s ‘Single of the Year.’
Enjoy the original 1983 music video below:
“A Little Good News” Lyrics
I rolled out this morning…kids had the morning news show on
Bryant Gumbel was talking about the fighting in Lebanon
Some senator was squawking about the bad economy
It’s gonna get worse you see we need a change in policy
There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
One more sad story’s one more than I can stand
Just once, how I’d like to see the headline say
Not much to print today can’t find nothing bad to say
Because…
Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD’d, nobody burned a single building down
Nobody fired a shot in anger…nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today
I’ll come home this evening…I’ll bet that the news will be the same
Somebody takes a hostage…somebody steals a plane
How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
And how we cleaned up the air…how everybody learned to care
Whoa, tell me…
Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today
And in the streets of Ireland all the children had to do was play
And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
We sure could use a little good news today
Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
Nobody OD’d, nobody burned a single building down
Nobody fired a shot in anger…nobody had to die in vain
We sure could use a little good news today
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