| Sing you a song about a man long forgotten
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| Born in Massachusetts in the city of Boston
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| He grew up, silver spoon in his mouth
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| Cocky as hell and he knew what he was all about
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| His brother Jack came home a hero from the Navy
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| His Daddy said, «Bobby, I think that maybe
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| If you and me do a whole lot of work
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| He’ll be the first Irish Catholic to make it to the White House.»
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| His Daddy, he bought the Democratic ticket
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| And Jack walked all over a man called Nixon
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| Six months later they’re sitting in the White House
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| «Bobby, let’s find out what this country is all about
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| I want you to be my attorney general
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| Clean up the unions, meet that man called Martin."
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| Then he got mixed up in the Cuban Crisis
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| Lee Harvey Oswald blew his head off down in Texas
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| Don’t get mad, just get even
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| Keep on going though your heart is bleeding
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| Love your friends, don’t turn your back on your enemies
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| This is the story of a man called Bobby Kennedy
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| So Bobby, he took a trip down South
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| Saw his brothers and his sisters living hand to mouth
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| Deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta
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| While up in DC they’re blowing billions on weapons
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| Saw the look of despair in the eyes of the children
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| The hopelessness of the men and the women
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| «Something is rotten in these United States
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| And if you ain’t gonna fix it then get out of my way!»
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| He said, «I gotta do this, gotta run for President
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| Gotta put my millions where my heart is.»
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| Ran against Hubert and Gene McCarthy
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| Give the people a voice though it’s breaking up the party
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| Then someone whacked Martin in a state of paranoia
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| Bobby won the primary in the state of California
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| But some crazy mother with an illegal weapon
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| Blew his brains out all over that hotel
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| Don’t get mad, just get even
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| Keep on going though your heart is bleeding
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| Love your friends, don’t turn your back on your enemies
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| This is the story of a man called Bobby Kennedy
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| So many years since Bobby got offed
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| Nothing to replace him, no one doing the job
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| Don’t feed the children, they’re costing the moon
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| Weasels in the White House sing a Democratic tune
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| Then I hear him say, «It don’t make any sense.»
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| You can’t balance budgets without a conscience
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| And no one will deliver you from your enemies
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| If you go ahead and give up on all your dreams.
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| Don’t get mad, just get even
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| Keep on going though your heart is bleeding
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| Love your friends, don’t turn your back on your enemies
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| This is the story of a man called Bobby Kennedy
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| Don’t get mad, just get even
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| Keep on going though your heart is bleeding
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| Love your friends, don’t turn your back on your enemies
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| This is the story of a man called Bobby Kennedy
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| This is the story of a man called Bobby Kennedy |