The Ross Perot Guide To Answering Embarassing Questions Lyrics - Arlo Guthrie

words by Calvin Trillin 

music and adaptation by Pete Seeger 

When something in my history is found 

Which contradicts the views that I propound 

Or shows that I perhaps am not the guy I claim to be 

Here's what I usually do 

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I lie 

I simply boldly falsify 

I look the other feller in the eye 

And just deny, deny, deny 

I lie 

I don t apologize. Not me. Instead 

I say I never said the things I said 

Nor did the things some people saw me do 

When confronted by some things they know are true 

Chorus 

I hate those weasel words some slickies use 

To blur their past or muddy up their views 

Not me. I'm blunt. One thing that makes me great 

Is that I'll never dodge nor obfuscate 

Chorus