Key: F major
Verse 1
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
The
D
F#m
have struck us once again
E
A
have struck upon the sand
D
G
And it seems as though a friendless world
Dsus4
D
F#m
has lost it self a friend
Bm
A
D
That was the president and that was the man
F#m
Bm
As he drove through
E
A
the music of the band
Dsus4
D
F#m
no more time would be allowed
A
D
not for the man
Here's a memory to share,
Dsus4
D
here's a memory to save
F#m
Bm
Of the sudden early
E
A
ending of command
Dsus4
D
F#m
is buried in his grave
A
D
and that was the man
D
F#m
the sorrow hits so hard
E
A
I'll never understand
D
Dsus4
How a man so filled with life,
D
F#m
even death was caught off guard
Bm
A
D
Dsus4
That was the president and that was the man
D
F#m
Bm
E
A
D
Dsus4
D
F#m
Bm
A
D
Everything that he might have done
Dsus4
D
And all he could have been
F#m
Bm
Was proven by
E
A
the troubled traitor's hand
G
D
could wound the hearts of so many men.
F#m
Bm
A
That was the president and that was
D
the man.
It's the glory that was Lincoln's,
Dsus4
D
never died when he was slain.
F#m
Bm
It's been car ried over
E
A
time and time again.
D
G
And to the list of honor,
D
F#m
you may add another name
A
D
that was the man
A
D
that was the man
you
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