Dan Bern
Dan Bern - President songtekst
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Raised up my hand & said I solemnly swear One January day And just like that I was the President Of the USA Just like that I was the President Of the USA There were limos, bands & speeches And parties to go to I said all that will have to wait There's just so much to do Them parties will have to wait There's so much to do My first day I offered statehood To Cuba and Mexico Cuba-1 state, Mexico-6 All or nothing that's how it goes No more border patrols & human smuggling and we'll deal with our own neighborhood And a few more stars and some green in the flag Seems like it might be good And maybe Israel and Palestine Will follow our lead and just combine And then become Israelstine, who knows? Anyway that's my first day Second day I told Detroit Start makin' cars that don't use gas And I give everybody a big rebate And they started sellin' fast We'll stop burning up the air we breathe And making the planet boil And we won't have to kiss the ass Of whoever's got the oil Since before Hoover, the farmers have got The short end of the stick With the help of our Cuban brothers We'll be Communistic (Collective farms!) Capitalism is a fine thing If it works, then great, OK But if not, gotta try something else That's what I did on my 3rd day My 4th day all of our troops came home From all around the Earth Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran More trouble than they're worth I was tempted to say I'm sorry We'll rebuild you with money and men But I just said, "You're on your own "And don't fuck with us again" My 5th day I changed the army So it's all of us or none We'll all tie knots, and walk through mud Pitch tents and fire a gun With just a few of us as warriors And the rest of us gone soft Martians could come and zap us Ain't gonna happen on my watch Day 6 I swore no prisoners more Would face their death inside Thou Shalt Not Kill applies to us all Too many mistakes, besides Day 6 I swore no prisoner more Would ever face his death At least until my jury hears The Crimes of President Bush Day 7 was hot, I legalized pot And none of this decriminalizing crap Let it grow in glory, end of story Then I burned one and took a nap Hemp will help the farmers We'll grow hemp everywhere One acre of hemp's like 10 acres of trees And hemp grows back next year My 8th day I made health care Cover everyone If you get sick, see a doctor That's how my government's run And by the way, abortion Is included in this plan No one tells a girl how to treat her body Least of all some man My 9th day I said sorry This government is no fool Ain't gonna pay you extra to send your kid To some weird-ass wacko school We'll do our best to make our schools Best anyplace on earth If they ain't good enough, think about it Before you go give birth My 10th day I made it OK To marry whoever you Would be willing to ride with On a bicycle built for 2 Marry a woman, marry a man Marry a monkey too Marry a big old rhino And visit 'em at the zoo And that was my first 10 days My first 2 working weeks Lots of work for the bureaucrats And the paper-pushing geeks After that we needed Some time to just have fun So we added some new holidays The next week, one by one Monday was National Nude Day Everyone disrobed Tuesday was National Stoned Day Everyone got stoned Wednesday was National Painting Day Thursday no television Friday was tennis, John McEnroe helped From his Cabinet position Saturday, Sex With Impunity Day With no repercussions Sunday, do it all-Nude, Stoned, Painting, no TV, Tennis, Sex-Enjoy!! Just be ready for work on Monday And mister, no discussion My Cabinet, as previously mentioned Includes John McEnroe And Wavy Gravy and Michael Franti And Ani Difranco Muhammad Ali, Madonna Maya Angelou, Bratt Pitt And Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton And we'll watch 'em both go at it And then I'll get that Stephen Hawking Make him a citizen and stuff He's the smartest guy in the world England's had him long enough I'll tell him you can be the head of whatever you want Just bring your thinking cap And I'll give him an office in Hollywood With all those ramps and crap I raised up my hand and said I solemnly swear One January day And just like that I was the President Of the USA Just like that Just like that Just like that I was the President Of the USA