| Just after I was born, my father said to everyone
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| That I would be the President one day
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| You’re a natural politician, boy, get it in your head
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| And you know that it might just turn out that way
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| So through all the years of my childhood
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| There more important things than to play
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| I started caring for my country and my fellow man
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| And this is what I would always say
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| I’d say, I don’t want to be President
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| But I want to help the poor and the helpless people
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| I really don’t want to be President
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| But if I’m elected I promise to be faithful
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| I graduated college with my law degree
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| I was a young man on the move, they always say
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| I was helping my community, committed to the people
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| I was working as a citizen, to build a better day
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| They persuaded me to run for Congressman
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| They said from Congress you could do much more good
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| And you’ve got to have the power if your changing things
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| And I was hoping to do everything I could for the people
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| I’d say I don’t want to be President
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| But I want to help the poor and the helpless people
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| I really don’t want to be President
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| But if I’m elected I promise to be faithful
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| Time is a march where the powerful are drummers
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| Big business, big labor, big oil
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| And soon I was meeting with the men who ran the country
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| The men who owned the sky and the soil
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| Oh, I became a Senator, a man to be reckoned with
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| Playing golf with millionaires, and speaking on TV
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| And when they talked of potential presidential candidates
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| Most often talked about, and most prominent was me
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| Well, I got the nomination, ran a campaign of conscience
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| I stood for peace and brotherhood and for prosperity
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| And on the day of the election I went home to my mansion
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| When the people had spoken, they’d elected me
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| But I don’t want to be President |