Lyr Req: Christ for President (Woody Guthie)

Subject: Christ for President lyrics
From: Shawn.
Date: 13 Nov 98 - 05:23 PM

Help! I need some mudcat expert knowledge. I'm just curious if anyone out there can give me the lyrics to Christ for President by Woody Guthrie? I saw you're page and figured if there were experts that they would be here.

Much appreciated,

Shawn.

Subject: ADD: Christ for President (Woody Guthrie)
From: SueB
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 08:13 PM

Not the most timely response, but what the hell...

Let's have Christ our President
Let us have him for our king
Cast your vote for the carpenter
That you call the Nazarene

The only way we could ever beat
These crooked politician men
Is to cast the money changers out of the temple
Put the carpenter in

Oh it's Jesus Christ our President
God above our King
With a job and a pension for young and old
We will make Hallelujah ring

Every year we waste enough
To feed the ones who starve
We build our civilization up
And we shoot it down with wars

But with the carpenter on the seat
Way up in the capitol town
The USA'd be on the way
Prosperity bound


I got these words off a copy of a CD which is only labeled
Billy Bragg and Wilco, didn't know it was a Guthrie song.

Subject: Lyr Add:Christ for President lyrics
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 08:29 PM

Just an Add for SueB's post of 14 Apr 04 - 08:13 PM this thread.

Subject: RE: Christ for President lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 04 - 09:39 PM

This is on the first (1998) Mermaid Avenue CD by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Words by Woody Guthrie, no date; music by Jeff Tweedy & Jay Bennett, 1997. Tweedy does a great job on lead vocal on this song.
In 1943, Woody and his second wife, Marjorie, moved to 3520 Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island, New York.
-Joe Offer-