Watergate Blues chords by Tom T. Hall
Verse 1
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McGovern said, boys,
I think I'm gonna run
Got a lot of work to be done in Washington
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He talked to the poor folks,
the blacks and the youth
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Humphrey said, George,
I think you're gonna lose
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He said, I want that job myself
Well, there was Kennedy and Wallace
and Muskie in mind
McGovern couldn't seem to
get his ducks all in line
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Somebody shot Wallace and Jackson,
he tried
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Muskie might have made it,
but he broke down and cried
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I'll tell you boys, it's a hard life
But down in Miami,
McGovern got it all
A strange -looking bunch
of folks inside Convention Hall
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McGovern said,
I need someone to carry the South
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They picked poor Tom Eagleton,
but folks found him out
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That liberal press, they gotta know it all
Well, McGovern took Shriver
and he started to run
Sarge said, units, let's have a little fun
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They ran into trouble
almost everywhere they went
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There was a big committee
to elect the president
I'll tell you now,
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they were a smooth group
Well, they broke into Watergate
and tapped people's phones
The FBI and CIA
would not leave folks alone
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The people in the White House
were bursting with pride
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When the votes were all counted,
it was a big landslide
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The USA bought a new used car
Russia and Vietnam and China were cool
The American press,
they could not find any news
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So they dug in the Watergate
and the further they went
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It seemed as if they might just
run into the President
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You know it was a big shock
Well, there was Hardiman and Gray
and Mitchell and Dean
A whole lot of folks were shakin'
on the White House scene
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They patched up the cracks
but the dam broke loose
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Watergate was all you
could read in the news
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And Nicky said, well, it's news to me
Well, there's Lincoln and Roosevelt
and Truman and I
All turnin' over in their
graves every night
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Somehow my mind goes
back to Betsy Ross
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Nobody knows what this country has lost
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I will repeat, it's a hard life
Well, somewhere in this country
there's a hard -workin' man
Readin' his paper as
he tries to understand
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Are there no honest people left anymore?
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One night will he hear a pound nun
on his door
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If it gets that way, Lord, help us all
Outro 1
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Watergate Blues
Tom T. Hall
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