Arlo Guthrie on Hussein Obama, 'cos he says he did not know...Oh yeah?

Presidential Rag




by Arlo Guthrie





You said you didn't know

that the cats with the bugs were there,

and that you never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere,

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 to,

well, that ain't hard to 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 not 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* are the one we voted for, so *you* must take the blame,

for handing out authority to men who are insane.



You say its all fixed-up now, that 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,

fathers still are asking what the whole damned thing is for,

and people still are hungry, and people still are poor,

An honest week of work these days don't feed the kids no more,

schools are still like prisons...



Yes, you will be remembered, be remembered very well,

and if I live a long life, all the stories I could tell,

of men who are 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,

That you'd never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere.

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?