I Don't Want To Be President-Harry Chapin

[ti:I Don't Want To Be President] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:The Last Protest Singer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Don't Want To Be President - Harry Chapin [00:16.74]Just after I was born [00:18.75]My father said to everyone [00:20.53] [00:21.06]That I would be the President one day [00:24.10] [00:24.76]You're a natural politician boy [00:27.43]Get it in your head [00:28.92]And you know that it might just turn out that way [00:33.48]So through all the years of my childhood [00:36.55] [00:37.34]There more important things than to play [00:40.59] [00:41.29]I started caring for my country [00:43.41]And my fellow man [00:44.86] [00:45.93]And this is what I would always say [00:49.16] [00:50.34]I don't want to be President [00:53.72]But I want to help the poor [00:55.89]And the helpless people [00:58.59]I really don't want to be President [01:02.05]But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful [01:06.75]I graduated college with my law degree [01:10.07]I was a young man on the move [01:12.29]They always say [01:13.87] [01:14.65]I was helping my community [01:17.02]Committed to the people [01:19.17]I was working as a citizen [01:20.90]To build a better day [01:23.15]They persuaded me to run for Congressman [01:26.86]They said from congress you could do much more good [01:30.02] [01:30.92]And you've got to have the power [01:32.93]If your changing things [01:35.19]And I was hoping to do everything [01:37.33]I could for the people [01:39.29]I'd say I don't want to be President [01:43.43]But I want to help the poor [01:45.32]And the helpless people [01:47.88]I really don't want to be President [01:51.59]But if I'm elected [01:52.58]I promise to be faithful [01:55.62] [02:00.08]Time is a march where the powerful are drummers [02:03.83]Big business big labor [02:05.94]Big oil [02:07.97]And soon I was meeting with the men who ran the country [02:11.91]The men who owned the sky and the soil [02:15.19]Oh I became a senator [02:18.02]A man to be reckoned with [02:20.07]Playing golf with millionaires [02:22.17]And speaking on tv [02:24.13]And when they talked of potential presidential candidates [02:28.42]Most often mention [02:29.77]And most prominent was me [02:32.14]Well I got the nomination [02:33.74]Ran a campaign of conscience [02:35.96]I stood for peace and brotherhood [02:38.30]And for prosperity [02:39.72]And on the day of the election [02:41.86]I went home to my mansion [02:44.00]When the people spoken [02:46.46]Hey delighted me [02:48.87] [02:51.77]I don't want to be president [02:55.48] [02:56.09]Shall do change it [02:57.91]Slow free ganna wrong [02:59.96]I really don't want to be president [03:03.55] [03:04.18]Shall do change to a penser the moon [03:07.84]No [03:08.21]I don't want to be president [03:11.84]But I want to help the poor [03:13.55]And the helpless people [03:16.20]I don't want to be president [03:19.65]But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful [03:24.15]They do duty with a Jhonson follow attention [03:28.19]They do duty with a Jhonson follow attention [03:32.36]They do duty with a Jhonson follow attention [03:36.46]They do duty with my friends do more