Chord/Tab song: If I Was President 2016

[E] [G] [Am] [C] [Em]

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Listen to the song for the fluid strumming pattern

Intro

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Election time is comin

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[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]
If I was president

[E] [G] [Am][C]
An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,

[E] [G] [Am][C]
we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.

[E] [G] [Am] [C]
I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,

[E] [G]
screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".

[Am] [C]
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.

[E] [G] [Am] [C]
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!

[Am] [C]
Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.

[E] [G]
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.

[Am] [C]
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