Another JFK song - written by Gary Forrester, an American fellow living in Australia (current whereabouts unknown) who I think came from Illinois and had some background in the law (maybe also FROM the law! I'm not exactly sure why he was in Oz)
Anyhow, he had a bluegrass band called The Rank Strangers during the 90s (I played a bit of bass there for a while) and had some fine songs, among them this one...

JFK
(Gary Forrester)

Where was you in 1959?
Was you even born, can you remember the time?
I was workin' in a fact'ry, grabbin' them bottles
as they come off the assembly line
I'd stack 'em on a pallet and the world was mine

At the end of the day the fact'ry whistle would blow
I'd jump in my Studebaker and drive it home
John F. Kennedy was runnin' hard
and the world was black'n'white
on the 6 o'clock news 'most every night

Now down in Havana Castro took power
Fidel made a fool out of Eisenhower
and the military men in the USA
said "We gotta cut him down to size"
come up with a plan to take him by surprise

Now JFK was just 43
said, "Ask what you can do for your country"
3 months later in the Bay of Pigs
the counter-revolution was blown away
It was humiliation for the CIA

Now the Mob in Chicago felt the heat come down
Brother Bobby chasin' 'em all over town
In Cuba the whorehouses all shut down
Fidel put the squeeze
on the Mob and the right-wing Cuban refugees

Now they all got together down in New Orleans
The macho boys and the bayou queens
said "We lost our money, we lost our home
somebody got a price to pay
I think you're gonna get hit Mr. JFK"

Ridin' into Dallas in a limousine
November 22nd 1963
wavin' to the people with the top pulled down
his wife sittin' by his side
that was the the day that the President died

Now you don't need no college degree
to understand that the murder was a conspiracy
But the people in power in the USA
say that "Oswald done it alone
and Jacky Ruby come and shot him for reasons of his own"

I can never forget that mournful day
when 6 white horses took his body away
It was bye-bye American pie
THAT was the day that the music died
and the only thing to do was to lay down and cry

So where was you in 1959?
Was you even born, do you remember the time?
I was workin' in a fac'try grabbin' them bottles
as they come off the assembly line
That was the time when the world was mine
Yeah, that was the time when the world was mine...

I have a vinyl called "Uluru" with this song on it, Larrikin Records LRF230, probably out of print, but worth an enquiry - there's been a changing of the guard at Larrikin since that time, maybe a current website, or try the old postal address P.O. box 162 Paddington NSW 2021 Australia.

Cheers Dave Brannigan