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Harry Chapin - I Don't Want To Be President Lyrics

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  • Just after I was born, my father said to everyone
  • That I would be the President one day
  • You're a natural politician, boy, get it in your head
  • And you know that it might just turn out that way
  • So through all the years of my childhood
  • There more important things than to play
  • I started caring for my country and my fellow man
  • And this is what I would always say
  • I'd say, I don't want to be President
  • But I want to help the poor and the helpless people
  • I really don't want to be President
  • But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful
  • I graduated college with my law degree
  • I was a young man on the move, they always say
  • I was helping my community, committed to the people
  • I was working as a citizen, to build a better day
  • They persuaded me to run for Congressman
  • They said from Congress you could do much more good
  • And you've got to have the power if your changing things
  • And I was hoping to do everything I could for the people
  • I'd say I don't want to be President
  • But I want to help the poor and the helpless people
  • I really don't want to be President
  • But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful
  • Time is a march where the powerful are drummers
  • Big business, big labor, big oil
  • And soon I was meeting with the men who ran the country
  • The men who owned the sky and the soil
  • Oh, I became a Senator, a man to be reckoned with
  • Playing golf with millionaires, and speaking on TV
  • And when they talked of potential presidential candidates
  • Most often talked about, and most prominent was me
  • Well, I got the nomination, ran a campaign of conscience
  • I stood for peace and brotherhood and for prosperity
  • And on the day of the election I went home to my mansion
  • When the peop

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