Talking Watergate chords by
Tom Paxton
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Key: G major•
Verse 1
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I was coming home pretty
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late one night
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Singing a song and about half- tide
I was young, my friend, and I'd
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had me a pretty good date
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I was fiddling around with
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the front door key
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When a weird looking fellow stepped
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up to me and said
"Tell me, buddy,
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if this ain't the Watergate"
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I said it was and with
Verse 2
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a grin on
his face
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He said "I've always
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wanted to see this place
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I hear it's just the nicest place in town
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And me and my friends
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are dy ing to see
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If it's all that it's cracked up to be"
So I said, "Well come on
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in and I'll show you around"
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Well they
Verse 3
seemed
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to love my guided tour
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Till we stopped outside of a certain door
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And one of my newfound
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friends said "looky here"
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It's the Democratic
office if I ain't wrong
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They help to keep our country strong
And he blinked his eye to
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hold back a heartfelt tear
Verse 4
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He looked kinda shy and
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he shuffled his feet
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And said "No tour would be complete
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If we didn't go in a have a look around
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I don't know how, but
the door swung wide
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And we were all sneaking inside
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And laughin' and gigglin'
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and trying not to make a sound
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We all split up and I was
Verse 5
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on my own
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A couple of the boys were playing
'round with the phones
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And I saw somebody,
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he was fiddling at a bigshot's desk
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They were opening
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draws; going through files
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It made me happy just to see their smiles
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Till somebody new said "Hold
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it; you're under arrest"
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It
Verse 6
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took all night to make my bail
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And as I left the DC jail
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A man stepped out
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of a long black limousine
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He said "Get in son and if you do
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We're gonna take good care of you"
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And he flashed the biggest
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roll of bills I'd ever seen
Verse 7
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He said "Get in son
and if you do
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We're gonna take good care of you
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Hey, we're going to stick with
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you through think and thin
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He drove through traffic
like a scalded bird
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Throwing money out the window to
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the common herd
He pulled up to the White House
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door and walked right in
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Well, gosh, I couldn't believe
Verse 8
my luck
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This fellow says I can call him Chuck
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He says I'm to stick with
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him wherever he went
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I took off my hat to make a vow
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And he said there wasn't
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any time for that now
He opened the door and
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there stood the President
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Verse 9
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started shaking around the knees
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But he threw me a football
to put me at ease
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I threw it back, and he threw it back again
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A tape recorder was playing real loud
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The sound of a cheering football crowd
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Then he turned it off, took off his helmet,
and said "amen"
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Verse 10
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He smiled at me and he said "Bob
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Has told me you're doing a real
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fine job
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And I want to put and end to all your fears
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You've got some friends
and that's worth knowing
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When the going gets tough the
tough get going
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And we'll stick with you if they
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put you away for years
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I said it made me feel
Verse 11
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so proud
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Just to hang around with this great crowd
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With John and Bob and Mitch and all the rest
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And even though no jail was fun
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I knew that justice would be done
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They laughed so hard the
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tears rolled down their chests
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Oh
Verse 12
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ain't it great what friends can do?
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They say I'll be out in a year or two
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And they'll get me a real
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nice job that pays real well
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They've taught some useful things to me
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And now that I'm going on TV
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They taught me how to smile and lie like hell
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