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I Don't Want To Be President easy guitar chords by 
Harry Chapin
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Intro 1
G
Am
D
G
C
D
G
C
Verse 1
Em
D
Just after I was born,
C
my father said to everyone
G
That I would be the President
Am
C
one day
Em
You're a natural politician,
D
C
boy, get it in your head
G
And you know that it might
Am
D
G
just turn out that way
Bm
C
So through all the years of my childhood
Bm
There more important
A
things than to play
Em
D
I started caring for my country
C
and my fellow man
G
Am
D
And this is what I would always say
Verse 2
G
Em
Bm
I'd say, I don't want to be President
C
G
Bm
But I want to help the poor
Am
D
and the helpless people
G
Em
Bm
I really don't want to be President
C
G
Bm
But if I'm elected I promise
C
D
G
to be faith ful
Verse 3
Em
D
C
I graduated college with my law degree
G
I was a young man on the move,
Am
C
they always say
Em
D
I was helping my community,
C
committed to the people
G
I was working as a citizen,
D
G
to build a better day
Bm
They persuaded me to run
C
for Congressman
Bm
They said from Congress you could
A
do much more good
Em
D
And you've got to have the power
C
if your changing things
G
And I was hoping to do everything
Am
D
I could for the people
Verse 4
G
Em
Bm
I'd say I don't want to be President
C
G
Bm
But I want to help the
Am
D
poor and the helpless people
G
Em
Bm
I really don't want to be President
C
G
Bm
But if I'm elected I prom
C
D
G
ise to be faith ful
Em
Verse 5
Em
Time is a march where the
powerful are drummers
G
Big business, big labor, big oil
Em
And soon I was meeting with the
men who ran the country
G
The men who owned the sky and the soil
B
Em
D
Oh, I became a Senator,
C
a man to be reckoned with
G
Playing golf with millionaires,
Am
C
and speaking on TV
D
Em
D
And when they talked of potential
C
presidential candidates
G
Most often talked about,
Am
D
G
and most prominent was me
Bm
Well, I got the nomination,
C
ran a campaign of conscience
Bm
I stood for peace and brotherhood
A
and for prosperity
Em
D
And on the day of the election I
C
went home to my mansion
G
When the people had spoken,
Am
D
they'd elected me
Verse 6
D
G
Bm
C
G
D
C
D
But
G
I don't
Em
Bm
want to be President
C
Outro 1
G
Bm
G
Em
G
Em
Bm
C
G
Am
D
G
Em
Bm
C
G
Bm
C
D
G
D
G
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