Harry Chapin - I Don't Want to Be President lyrics

Just after I was born
My father said to everyone
That I would be the President one day
You're a natural politician, boy
Get it in your head
And you know that it might
Just turn out that way
So through all the years of my childhood
There more important things than to play
I started caring for my country
And my fellow man
And this is what I would always say

I'd say, I don't want to be President
But I want to help the
Poor and the helpless people
I really don't want to be President
But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful

I graduated college with my law degree
I was a young man on the move
They always say i was helping my community
Committed to the people
I was working as a citizen
To build a better day
They persuaded me to run for Congressman
They said from Congress you could
Do much more good and you've got to have the
Power if your changing things
And I was hoping to do everything
I could for the people

I'd say I don't want to be President
But I want to help the
Poor and the helpless people
I really don't want to be President
But if I'm elected I promise to be faithful

Time is a march where
The powerful are drummers
Big business, big labor, big oil
And soon I was meeting with the
Men who ran the country
The men who owned the sky and the soil
Oh, I became a Senator
A man to be reckoned with
Playing golf with millionaires
And speaking on TV and when they talked of
Potential presidential candidates
Most often talked about
And most prominent was me
Well, I got the nomination
Ran a campaign of conscience
I stood for peace and
Brotherhood and for prosperity
And on the day of the election
I went home to my mansion
When the people had spoken, they'd elected me

But I don't want to be President