《Dear Mr. President》歌词

[00:00:00] Dear Mr. President (亲爱的总统先生) - The Almanac Singers/The North Carolina Ramblers

[00:00:09] Dear Mr President I sat me down

[00:00:11] To send you greetings from my home town

[00:00:13] And send you best wishes from all the friends I know

[00:00:15] In Texas Alabama and Ohio and unaffiliated

[00:00:20] I'm an ordinary guy worked most of my life

[00:00:22] Sometime I'll settle down with my kids and wife

[00:00:25] And I like to see a movie or take a little drink

[00:00:27] And I like being free to say what I think

[00:00:29] Sorta runs in the family

[00:00:31] My grandpa crossed the ocean for the same reason

[00:00:35] Now I hate h****r and I can tell you why

[00:00:38] He's caused lots of good folks to suffer and die

[00:00:40] He's got a way of shovin' folks around

[00:00:42] I figger it's about time we slapped him down

[00:00:44] Give him a dose of his own medicine Lead poison

[00:00:50] Now Mr President

[00:00:51] We haven't always agreed in the past I know

[00:00:53] But that ain't at all important now

[00:00:55] What is important is what we got to do

[00:00:57] We got to lick Mr h****r and until we do

[00:00:59] Other things can wait

[00:01:02] In other words first we've got a skunk to skin

[00:01:06] War means overtime and higher prices

[00:01:08] But we're all willing to make sacrifices

[00:01:10] Hell I'd even stop fightin' with my mother-in-law

[00:01:12] Cause we need her too to win the war ol' battle-axe

[00:01:17] Now as I think of our great land

[00:01:19] With it's cities and towns and farming land

[00:01:21] With it's so many good people a-working every day

[00:01:23] I know it ain't perfect but it will be someday

[00:01:26] Just give us a little time

[00:01:28] This is the reason that I want to fight

[00:01:30] Not 'cause everything's perfect or everything's right

[00:01:32] No it's just the opposite: I'm fightin' because

[00:01:34] I want a better America and better laws

[00:01:37] And better homes and jobs and schools

[00:01:39] And no more Jim Crow and no more rules like

[00:01:42] "You can't ride on this train 'cause you're a Negro "

[00:01:45] "You can't live here 'cause you're a Jew "

[00:01:48] "You can't work here 'cause you're a union man "

[00:01:52] There's a line keeps runnin' through my head

[00:01:54] I think it was somethin' Joe Louis once said

[00:01:57] Said "There's a lot of things wrong

[00:01:58] But h****r won't help 'em "

[00:02:02] Now Mr President

[00:02:03] You're commander-in-chief of our armed forces

[00:02:05] The ships and the planes and the tanks and the horses

[00:02:07] I guess you know best just where I can fight

[00:02:10] All I want to be is situated right

[00:02:12] To do the most damage

[00:02:14] I never was one to try and shirk

[00:02:16] And let the other fellow do all of the work

[00:02:18] So when the time comes I'll be on hand

[00:02:20] And I can make good use of these two hands

[00:02:23] Quit playing this banjo around with the boys

[00:02:25] And exchange it for something that makes more noise

[00:02:29] So Mr President

[00:02:31] We got this one big job to do

[00:02:33] That's lick Mr h****r and when we're through

[00:02:35] Let no one else ever take his place

[00:02:38] To trample down the human race

[00:02:40] So what I want is you to give me a gun

[00:02:42] So we can hurry up and get the job done