{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2499135,"song":"Presidential Rag","artist":"Arlo Guthrie","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11508643-presidential-rag-chords-by-arlo-guthrie/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2499135?type=chord","rating":4.88361,"votes":14,"content":"Notes:\r\n\r\nOn 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.\r\nThe Am7 or Dm add G are on the & beats after 2 and 3.\r\n\r\nDurign the main body, stay on Am one measure at the end of every stanza, and one at the beginnign of a new\r\none (2 consecutively) if in the middle of a block of text, play 3 consecutive measures if there's a one\r\nline space.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPresidential Rag\r\n\r\n\r\nSpoken:\r\n\r\nYou know, took me a long time to get around to writin' a Watergate song. I think because...mainly because\r\nin the beginning of Watergate it was pretty funny, you know? So I said \"oh! I'm gonna write one of them\r\nfunny Watergate...\" you know:\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]   [ch]F#dim[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWatergate, Watergate but[/tab]\r\n\r\nit sorta got past the point of bein' funny, you know, and went on to new bigger and better things.\r\nAnd then I though \"oh, I better write one of those satyrical ballads.\" You know, like:\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]  [ch]E7[/ch]\r\n(Played satyrically, like a ballad)[/tab]\r\n\r\nbut got past that point. So I never wrote a Watergate song. Until one day, a little while ago,\r\nI was sitting around and I forgot all about Watergate. And I was sittin' around playin' the piano and\r\nall of a sudden this song jumped out and wrote itself down. The next day Spiro resigned.\r\nSo I been writing a lot since!\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou said you didn't know[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThat the cats with the bugs were there[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]E7[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd you'd never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut that just isn't the point, man[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThat's the wrong wrong way to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]E7[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you didn't know about that one, well then what else don't you know?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou said that you were lied to[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWell that ain't hard too see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]E7[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut you must have been fooled again by your friends across the sea[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd maybe you were fooled again by your people here at home[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause nobody could talk like you[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E7[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd know what's going on[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNobody elected your family[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd we didn't elect your friends[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo one voted for your advisors[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E7[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd nobody wants amends[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nYou're the one we voted for, so you must take the blame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor handing out authority to men who are insane[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nYou say it's all fixed up now; you've got new guys on the line[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]E7[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut you had better remember this while you still got the time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nMothers still are weeping for their boys that went to war[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]E7[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand fathers are still asking what the whole damn thing was for[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd people still are hungry, and people still are poor[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]E7[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd an honest week of work these days don't feed the kids no more[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSchools are still like prisons[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nCuz we don't learn how to live[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd everybody wants to take, nobody wants to give[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nYes you'll be remembered, be remembered very well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]E7[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd if I live a long life, oh, the stories I could tell![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOf men and wars and poverty. Of sickness and of greed[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHell yes[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou'll be remembered, be remembered very well[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou said you didn't know[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThat the cats with the bugs were there[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]E7[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd you'd never go along with that kind of stuff nowhere[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut that just isn't the point man[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThat's the wrong, wrong way to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf you didn't know about that one[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E7[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWell then what else don't you know?[/tab]","plain_text":"Notes:\n\nOn 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.\nThe Am7 or Dm add G are on the & beats after 2 and 3.\n\nDurign the main body, stay on Am one measure at the end of every stanza, and one at the beginnign of a new\none (2 consecutively) if in the middle of a block of text, play 3 consecutive measures if there's a one\nline space.\n\n\n\nPresidential Rag\n\n\nSpoken:\n\nYou know, took me a long time to get around to writin' a Watergate song. I think because...mainly because\nin the beginning of Watergate it was pretty funny, you know? So I said \"oh! I'm gonna write one of them\nfunny Watergate...\" you know:\n\n\n\nit sorta got past the point of bein' funny, you know, and went on to new bigger and better things.\nAnd then I though \"oh, I better write one of those satyrical ballads.\" You know, like:\n\n\n\n\nbut got past that point. So I never wrote a Watergate song. Until one day, a little while ago,\nI was sitting around and I forgot all about Watergate. And I was sittin' around playin' the piano and\nall of a sudden this song jumped out and wrote itself down. The next day Spiro resigned.\nSo I been writing a lot since!\n\n\n[Intro]\n\nAm","chords":["Am","Dm","G","C","F#dim","F","E","E7"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}