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13 Nov 98 - 05:23 PM (#45267) Subject: Christ for President lyrics From: Shawn. 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. |
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14 Apr 04 - 08:13 PM (#1161884) Subject: ADD: Christ for President (Woody Guthrie) From: SueB 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. |
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14 Apr 04 - 08:29 PM (#1161897) Subject: Lyr Add:Christ for President lyrics From: Sorcha Just an Add for SueB's post of 14 Apr 04 - 08:13 PM this thread. |
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14 Apr 04 - 09:39 PM (#1161953) Subject: RE: Christ for President lyrics From: Joe Offer 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- |