Arlo Guthrie – Presidential Rag (Guitar Intro Tab)
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Notes:
On Am and Dm chords add and take away a G note (I like to use the open 3rd string) for the riff in the song.
The Am7 or Dm add G are on the & beats after 2 and 3.
Durign the main body, stay on Am one measure at the end of every stanza, and one at the beginnign of a new
one (2 consecutively) if in the middle of a block of text, play 3 consecutive measures if there's a one
line space.
Spoken:
You know, took me a long time to get around to writin' a Watergate song. I think because...mainly because
in the beginning of Watergate it was pretty funny, you know? So I said "oh! I'm gonna write one of them
funny Watergate..." you know:
C F#dim F Watergate, Watergate but
it sorta got past the point of bein' funny, you know, and went on to new bigger and better things.
And then I though "oh, I better write one of those satyrical ballads." You know, like:
E E7 (Played satyrically, like a ballad)
but got past that point. So I never wrote a Watergate song. Until one day, a little while ago,
I was sitting around and I forgot all about Watergate. And I was sittin' around playin' the piano and
all of a sudden this song jumped out and wrote itself down. The next day Spiro resigned.
So I been writing a lot since!
[Intro]
Am
Am C You said you didn't know Dm That the cats with the bugs were there F G E7 Am And you'd never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere Am C But that just isn't the point, man Dm That's the wrong wrong way to go F G E7 Am If you didn't know about that one, well then what else don't you know? Am C You said that you were lied to Dm Well that ain't hard too see F G E7 Am But you must have been fooled again by your friends across the sea Am C Dm And maybe you were fooled again by your people here at home F G 'Cause nobody could talk like you E7 Am And know what's going on Am C Nobody elected your family Dm And we didn't elect your friends F G No one voted for your advisors E7 Am And nobody wants amends Am C Dm You're the one we voted for, so you must take the blame F G E7 Am For handing out authority to men who are insane Am C Dm You say it's all fixed up now; you've got new guys on the line F G E7 Am But you had better remember this while you still got the time Am C Dm Mothers still are weeping for their boys that went to war F G E7 Am and fathers are still asking what the whole damn thing was for Am C Dm And people still are hungry, and people still are poor F G E7 Am And an honest week of work these days don't feed the kids no more Am C Schools are still like prisons Dm Cuz we don't learn how to live F G E7 Am And everybody wants to take, nobody wants to give Am C Dm Yes you'll be remembered, be remembered very well F G E7 Am And if I live a long life, oh, the stories I could tell! Am C Dm Of men and wars and poverty. Of sickness and of greed F Hell yes G E7 Am You'll be remembered, be remembered very well Am C You said you didn't know Dm That the cats with the bugs were there F G E7 Am And you'd never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere Am C But that just isn't the point man Dm That's the wrong, wrong way to go F G If you didn't know about that one E7 Am Well then what else don't you know?