You said you didn't know,
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that the taps with the bugs were there,
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and you never go along with that kind of stuff no where,
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but that just isn't the point man,
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that's the wrong wrong way to go,
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if you didn't know about that one, well then what else don't you know,
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You said that you were lied to,
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well that aint hard too see,
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but you must have been fooled again by your friends across the sea,
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and maybe you were fooled again by your people here at home,
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because nobody could talk like you,
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and know what's going on,
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Nobody elected your family,
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and we didn't elect your friends,
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no one voted for your advisors,
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and nobody wants amends,
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You're the one we voted for, so you must take the blame,
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For handing out authority to men who were insane,
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You say its all fixed up now, you've got new guys on the line,
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but you had better remember this while you still got the time,
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Mothers still are weeping for their boys that went to war,
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father still are asking what the whole damn thing was for,
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and People still are hungry and people still are poor,
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And an honest week of work these days don't feed the kids no more,
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Schools are still like prisons,
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cuz we don't learn how to live,
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and everybody wants to take, nobody wants to give,
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Yes you will be remembered, be remembered very well,
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and if I live a long life, all the stories I could tell,
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A many who are in in poverty of sickness and of grief,
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hell yes,
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you will be remembered, be remembered very well,
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You said you didn't know,
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that the taps with the bugs were there,
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You'd never go along with that kind of stuff no where
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But that just isn't the point man,
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That's the wrong ,wrong way to go,
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You didn't know about that one,
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well then what else don't you know.
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Presidential Rag
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| Arlo Guthrie |
