If I Was President 2016 Wyclef Jean
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Intro
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Election time is comin
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If I was president,
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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
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An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,
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we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.
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I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,
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screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".
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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.
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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!
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Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.
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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.
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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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