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Thread #133193   Message #3032265
Posted By: Joe Offer
14-Nov-10 - 08:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Franklin D Roosevelt's Back Again
Subject: ADD Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt (Winchester)
Gee, all this puts me in the mood for an old favorite that doesn't seem to have been posted here. I found it at http://www.jessewinchester.com

Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt

(Jesse Winchester)

Tell me why you like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
Good God almighty, he's the poor man's friend

Cause in the year of nineteen and thirty-two
We had no idea just what we would do
All our finances had flowed away
Till my dad got a job with the WPA

That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
That's why I like Roosevelt, poor man's friend
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend

Tell me why you like Lester B
Tell me why you like Lester B
Tell me why you like Lester B
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend

Cause in the year of nineteen and sixty-seven
I was a somewhat younger man
The call came to bloody glory came
And I would not raise my hand
Cause I'm baptized by water
So I'll pass on the one by fire
If you want to fight
Go on and fight if that be your desire

That's why I like Pierre Trudeau
That's why I like Pierre Trudeau
That's why I like Pierre Trudeau
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend
Good God almighty that's the poor man's friend

©1974 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Learn To Love It"




Is THAT the Lester B that Jesse Winchester sang about?
-Joe-