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That Was The President
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Phil Ochs
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G C G Bm
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The bullets of the false revenge have struck us once again
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Em Am D
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As the angry seas have struck upon the sand
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G C G Bm
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And it seemed as though a friendless world had lost itself a friend
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Em D G
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That was the President and that was the man.
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I still can see him smiling there and waving at the crowd
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As he drove through the music of the band
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And never even knowing no more time would be allowed
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Not for the President and not for the man.
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Here's a memory to share, here's a memory to save
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Of the sudden early ending of command
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Yet a part of you and a part of me is buried in his grave
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That was the President and that was the man.
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It's not only for the leader that the sorrow hits so hard
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There are greater things I'll never understand
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How a man so filled with life, even death was caught off guard.
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That was the President and that was the man.
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Every thing he might have done and all he could have been
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Was proven by the troubled traitors hand
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For what other death could wound the hearts of so many men
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That was the President and that was the man.
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Yes, the glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain
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It's been carried over time and time again
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And to the list of honor you may add another name
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That was the President and that was the man.
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That was the President and that was the man.
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Here is an older version of the song, supplied by Cody Gillespie-Lynch
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On a South Pacific ocean, on a South Pacific shore,
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A legend was written on the sand,
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For a man of peace was born in the middle of a war,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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With the wisdom of the old and the vision of the young,
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A challenge was given to the land,
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And our dreams of peace were spoken with a gifted, golden tongue,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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When the freedom revolution gave a rumble and a roar,
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The world was shown on which side he would stand,
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For the first time in a hundred years he opened up the door,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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When a hungry world was searching for a way to feed it's own,
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The Peace Corps was offered as his plan,
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And now these seeds of knowledge go wherever winds have blown,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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Everything he might've done and all he could've been,
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Was proven by the tainted traitor's hand,
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For what other death could wound the hearts of so many men,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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No end to all the sorrow and the hours we shall grieve,
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So deep was the fire of his brand,
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And still I can remember, and still I can't believe,
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That was the president, and that was the man.
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Yes, the glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain,
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That glory shown with Roosevelt again,
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And to this list of honor you may list another name,
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For these were the presidents, and these were the men.
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