Okkervil River

^D The President's ^A dead, the radio ^Em said
Dear friends is it ^G not so horr ^A ible?
A shock to my ^Em heart like a knife right through ^G bread,
The newspaper ^A said, the President's d ^D ead.
^D The sea doesn't ^A dry and the sky doesn't ^Em split,
But friends it just ^G seems so wrong, don't ^A it?
A shout from the ^Em crowd and a shot to the ^G head,
The President's l ^A ying on the tarmac d ^D ead.
^D He's lying face ^A down with those black dress day ^Em gents,
Guns drawn running a ^G round in the early o- ^A bits,
Say he was a good ^Em man, you can't argue with ^G that,
Not today you ^A can't, not now you ^D can't.
^D In the media t ^A ent, where they spin and they ^Em slant,
They just foam at the m ^G outh and they chomp at the ^A bit,
Those bloodsuckers can ^Em wait, ‘till those vultures cool ^G it,
The radio s ^A aid, the President's ^D dead,
^D And let's imagine the ^A day, let's say 30 years ^Em in,
How somebody will ^G say what were you doing w ^A hen,
On a beautiful ^Em day I was waking up a ^G nd
I was lying in ^A bed with my girl ^D friend
^D And the eggs on the p ^A late and the bacon hi ^Em ssing
And the coffee was g ^G reat, these was spring on the ^A wind,
If you ever lived through a ^Em day where the littlest ^G things,
in the littlest ^A ways, made you feel you were ^D blest.
^D And if you died right ^A then, well you know you'd be ^Em missed,
But there's no better ^G way to cease to e ^A xist,
And you wouldn't feel ^Em sad and you wouldn't re ^G sist,
Because you knew what you ^A had and were thankful for ^D it,
^D In your own little ^A way, well I'm a small quiet ^Em man,
I've got no wars to ^G win, I don't have a big p ^A lan,
But I love my new ^Em place and I love my old f ^G riends,
And I scrimp and I ^A save and one day I'll have ^D kids,
^D I can truthfully ^A say that my day was like ^Em that,
‘till the radio ^G playing on the stand by the ^A bed,
fired out this r ^Em eport and in three words they ^G said,
Like three shots to my ^A head, the President's ^D de ^A ad ^Em . ^G
The President's d ^D ea ^A d. ^{Em G}
The President's d ^D ea ^A d. ^{Em G
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