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Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon (Live)
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Phil Ochs
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Here's to the state of Richard Nixon.
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Where underneath his borders
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The Devil draws no lines.
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If you drag his muddy rivers
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Nameless bodies you will find
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And the fat trees of the forest
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Have hid a thousand crimes,
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And the calendar is lying
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When it reads the present time.
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Oh here's to the land you've torn out the heart of.
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Richard Nixon: find yourself another country to be part of.
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And here's to the schools of Richard Nixon.
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Where they're teaching all the children
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That they don't have to care,
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All the rudiments of hatred
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Are present everywhere,
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And every single classroom
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Is a factory of despair.
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There's nobody learning
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Such a foreign word as "fair."
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And here's to the laws of Richard Nixon.
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Where the wars are fought in secret,
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Pearl Harbor every day.
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He punishes with income tax
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That he don't have to pay,
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And he's tapping his own brother
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Just to hear what he would say.
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But corruption can be classic
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In the Richard Nixon way.
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And here's to the churches of Richard Nixon (and Billy Graham).
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Where the cross once made of silver
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Now is caked with rust,
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And the Sunday morning sermons
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Pander to their lust,
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And the fallen face of Jesus
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Is choking in the dust,
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And Heaven only knows
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In which God they can trust.
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And here's to the government of Richard Nixon.
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In the swamp of their bureaucracy
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They're always bogging down,
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And criminals are posing
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As advisors to the crown,
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And they hope that no one sees the sights
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And no one hears the sounds,
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And the speeches of the president
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Are the ravings of a clown.
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