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joe glazer - ida mae (social security song) lyrics

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[intro]
“first one of the great achievements of the new deal was the social security act, passed 1935. it took five years to save enough money so they could start paying out pensions, and the very first pension check was paid out to a woman named ida mae fuller. now that’s something worth celebrating, so i wrote this song for ida mae on the fiftieth anniversary of the social security law.”

[chorus]
ida mae, ida mae
she got her pension check today
she did a little jig, she yelled, “whoopee!
god bless social security”

[verse 1]
well, the mailman put that check in her hand
she’s the first one in the land
twenty+two dollars every month
ida mae, don’t spend it all at once
[chorus]
ida mae, ida mae
she got her pension check today
she did a little jig, she yelled, “whoopee!
god bless social security”

[verse 2]
she wasn’t famous, didn’t have good looks
but she got into the history books
they put her name down ’cause she was number one
started something still going on

[verse 3]
and since that day in 1940
checks been rolling, lordy, lordy
in the footsteps of ida mae
millions get their checks today
like ida mae, they’ll yell, “whoopee!
god bless social security”

[chorus]
ida mae, ida mae
she got her pension check today
she did a little jig, she yelled, “whoopee!
god bless social security
god bless social security
i need my social security
gotta have my social security”

- joe glazer lyrics

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