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If I Was President Wyclef Jean
[E] [G] [Am] [C] [Em]
E--0-----3----0--------0- B--0-----0----1-----1--0- G--1-----0----2-----0--0- D--2-----0----2-----2--2- A--2-----2----0-----3--2- E--0-----3-------------0-
Listen to the song for the fluid strumming pattern
Intro
E - G - Am - C x 2
Election time is comin
E - G - Am - C x 2
[E] [G] If I was president,
[Am] [C] [E] [G]I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,
[Am] [C] buried on Sunday.
[E] [G] If I was president...
[Am] [C] If I was president
[E] [G] [Am] [C]An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,
[E] [G] [Am] [C]we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.
[E] [G] [Am] [C]I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,
[E] [G] screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".
[Am] [C] That's when the vulture devoured.
(chorus)
[E] [G] If I was president...
[Am] [C] If I was president
[E] [G] But the radio won't play this.
[Am] [C] They call this rebel music.
[E] [G] [Am] [C] How can you refuse it, children of Moses?
(Chorus)
[E] [G] If I was president...
[Am] [C] If I was president
[E] [G] Tell the children the truth, the truth!
[Am] [C] Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.
[E] [G] Tell them the truth, the truth YEAH!
[Am] [C] Tell them about Marcus Garvey.
[E] [G] Tell the children the truth YEAH! the truth!
[Am] [C] Tell them about Martin Luther King.
[E] [G] Tell them the truth,
[G] The Truth.
[Am] [C] Tell them about JFK
[E] [G] If I was president,
[Am] [C] [E] [G]I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,
[Am] [C] buried on Sunday.
[E] [G] If I was president...
[Am] [C] [Em] If I was president
- Wyclef Jean
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