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I Don't Want To Be President chords by
Harry Chapin
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Key: A major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Just after I was born,
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my father said to everyone
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That I would be the President
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one day
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You're a natural politician,
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boy, get it in your head
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And you know that it might
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just turn out that way
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So through all the years of my childhood
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There more important
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things than to play
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I started caring for my country
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and my fellow man
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And this is what I would always say
Verse 2
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I'd say, I don't want to be President
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But I want to help the poor
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and the helpless people
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I really don't want to be President
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But if I'm elected I promise
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to be faith ful
Verse 3
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I graduated college with my law degree
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I was a young man on the move,
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they always say
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I was helping my community,
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committed to the people
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I was working as a citizen,
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to build a better day
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They persuaded me to run
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for Congressman
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They said from Congress you could
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do much more good
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And you've got to have the power
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if your changing things
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And I was hoping to do everything
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I could for the people
Verse 4
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I'd say I don't want to be President
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But I want to help the
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poor and the helpless people
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I really don't want to be President
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But if I'm elected I prom
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ise to be faith ful
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Verse 5
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Time is a march where the

powerful are drummers
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Big business, big labor, big oil
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And soon I was meeting with the

men who ran the country
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The men who owned the sky and the soil
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Oh, I became a Senator,
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a man to be reckoned with
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Playing golf with millionaires,
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and speaking on TV
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And when they talked of potential
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presidential candidates
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Most often talked about,
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and most prominent was me
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Well, I got the nomination,
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ran a campaign of conscience
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I stood for peace and brotherhood
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and for prosperity
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And on the day of the election I
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went home to my mansion
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When the people had spoken,
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they'd elected me
Verse 6
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But
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I don't
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want to be President
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Outro 1
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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • G

  • Am

  • D

  • C

  • Em

  • Bm

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Capo: 2

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