Presidential Rag

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Watergate, Watergate but

it sorta got past the point of bein'
 funny, you know, and went on to new
 bigger and better things.
And then I though "oh, I better 
write one of those satyrical 
ballads." You know, like:


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(Played satyrically, like a ballad)

but got past that point. So I never 
wrote a Watergate song. Until one 
day, a little while ago,
I was sitting around and I forgot 
all about Watergate. And I was 
sittin' around playin' the piano and
all of a sudden this song jumped out
 and wrote itself down. The next day
 Spiro resigned.
So I been writing a lot since!


[Intro]

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You said you didn't know
         Dm
That the cats with the bugs were 
there
F               G                 
And you'd never go along with that
 E7               Am
 kind of stuff nowhere
Am                      C
But that just isn't the point, man
           Dm
That's the wrong wrong way to go
   F                     G        
If you didn't know about that one,
           E7                   Am
 well then what else don't you know?


Am                     C
You said that you were lied to
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     Dm
Well that ain't hard too see
F                      G         
But you must have been fooled 
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again by your friends across the sea
Am                 C             
And maybe you were fooled again 
       Dm
by your people here at home
       F            G
'Cause nobody could talk like you
    E7                 Am
And know what's going on


  Am                C
Nobody elected your family
       Dm
And we didn't elect your friends
       F                G
No one voted for your advisors
      E7           Am
And nobody wants amends
Am                C             
You're the one we voted for, so you 
Dm
must take the blame
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For handing out authority to men 
           Am
who are insane


Am                     C    
You say it's all fixed up now; 
              Dm
you've got new guys on the line
F                    G           
But you had better remember this 
      E7                 Am
while you still got the time
Am                C              
Mothers still are weeping for 
   Dm
their boys that went to war
    F                 G           
and fathers are still asking what 
    E7                    Am
the whole damn thing was for
    Am               C           
And people still are hungry, and 
Dm
people still are poor
       F              G        
And an honest week of work these 
             E7                Am
days don't feed the kids no more
Am                     C
Schools are still like prisons
       Dm
Cuz we don't learn how to live
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And everybody wants to take, 
              Am
nobody wants to give


Am              C         
Yes you'll be remembered, be 
     Dm
remembered very well
F               G                 
And if I live a long life, oh, the
 E7               Am
 stories I could tell!
Am                  C           
Of men and wars and poverty. Of 
Dm
sickness and of greed
     F
Hell yes
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You'll be remembered, be 
         Am
remembered very well
Am           C
You said you didn't know
         Dm
That the cats with the bugs were 
there
F               G                 
And you'd never go along with that
 E7              Am
 kind of stuff nowhere
Am                      C
But that just isn't the point man
           Dm
That's the wrong, wrong way to go
   F                     G
If you didn't know about that one
          E7                  Am
Well then what else don't you know?