Come see Tennessee on Lee – Gov. Bill Lee, that is.
On camera, Lee quips, “Man, I’m getting chills,” sitting on a stage with country singing superstar Brad Paisley and rewriting Paisley’s Tennessee tourism ad ditty. Instead of Paisley’s “Come see Tennessee on me,” lyrics, the Gov wants him to sing, “Come see Tennessee on Governor Lee.”
Good, Gov, keep your chills. You should stick to making goofy commercials and stop spending $2.8 million of our tax dollars in ill-founded ideas like handing out $250-a-whack travel vouchers to pay the air fare for tourists who book two nights in Tennessee hotels.
But in the spirit of the fun that The Goofy Gov mimes in the commercial as he tries to one-up Peyton Manning’s damage to Paisley’s songs, let’s offer Lee just a handful of better “Tennessee on me” ideas. (Lee’s full version is “Come See Tennessee on Governor Lee, and not on Brad PaisLee.”)
As bad as Lee’s retooled lyrics are, his state leadership is worse.