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Album: God's Problem Child (2017)
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  • This song is a spoof on the 2016 US presidential election:

    The elections are over and nobody won

    Willie Nelson's longtime producer and collaborator Buddy Cannon told Uncut: "We didn't set out to write a protest song. That title is something Willie always says - we just made a song out of it. It ended up having a few lines that had to fit with what was going on in CNN and Fox News."

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