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!

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Am           C
You said you didn't know
         Dm
That the cats with the bugs were there
F               G                  E7               Am
And you'd never go along with that 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                   E7                   Am
If you didn't know about that one, well then what else don't you know?
Am                     C
You said that you were lied to
     Dm
Well that ain't hard too see
F                      G                    E7                   Am
But you must have been fooled again by your friends across the sea
Am                 C                    Dm
And maybe you were fooled again 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             Dm
You're the one we voted for, so you must take the blame
    F             G          E7             Am
For handing out authority to men who are insane
Am                     C                  Dm
You say it's all fixed up now; you've got new guys on the line
F                    G                 E7                 Am
But you had better remember this while you still got the time
Am                C                 Dm
Mothers still are weeping for their boys that went to war
    F                 G               E7                    Am
and fathers are still asking what the whole damn thing was for
    Am               C           Dm
And people still are hungry, and people still are poor
       F              G                     E7                Am
And an honest week of work these 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, nobody wants to give
Am              C              Dm
Yes you'll be remembered, be remembered very well
F               G                  E7               Am
And if I live a long life, oh, the stories I could tell!
Am                  C           Dm
Of men and wars and poverty. Of sickness and of greed
     F
Hell yes
            G               E7             Am
You'll be remembered, be remembered very well
Am           C
You said you didn't know
         Dm
That the cats with the bugs were there
F               G                  E7              Am
And you'd never go along with that 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?

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