Presidential Rag Lyrics - Arlo Guthrie

You said you didn't know 

That the cats with the bugs were there 

And you never go along 

With that kind of stuff no where 

But that just isn't the point, man 

That's the wrong, wrong way to go 

If you didn't know about that one 

Well, then what else don't you know 

You said that you were lied too 

Well, that aint hard too see 

But you must have been fooled again 

By your friends across the sea 

And maybe you were fooled again 

By your people here at home 

Because nobody could talk like you 

And know what's going on 

Nobody elected your family 

And we didn't elect your friends 

No one voted for your advisors 

And nobody wants amends 

You're the one we voted for 

So you must take the blame 

For handing out authority 

To men who were insane 

You say its all fixed up now 

You've got new guys on the line 

But you had better remember this 

While you still got the time 

Mothers still are weeping 

For their boys that went to war 

Father still are asking 

What the whole damn thing was for 

And people still are hungry 

And people still are poor 

And an honest week of work these days 

Don't feed the kids no more 

Schools are still like prisons 

Cuz we don't learn how to live 

And everybody wants to take 

Nobody wants to give 

Yes, you will be remembered 

Be remembered very well 

And if I live a long life 

All the stories I could tell 

A many who are in, in poverty 

Of sickness and of grief 

Hell yes, you will be remembered 

Be remembered very well 

You said you didn't know that the 

That the cats with the bugs were there 

You'd never go along 

With that kind of stuff no where 

But that just isn't the point, man 

That's the wrong, wrong way to go 

You didn't know about that one 

Well, then what else don't you know