Pennsylvania Ave.

from Troubleshooting the Cosmos by Michael McGuire

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Mr. President can you hear me,
I've been down on my luck,
All I want in this world,
Is just to make an honest buck,
I heard they'er spending millions a day,
Could I just maybe have a small loan,
Mr. President I know you're a good man,
Would you just throw a dog a bone.

I'm a hard working man they say you've lost touch,
I know this ain't true.

Mr. President I don't understand,
Exactly what the government does,
Some say this ain't a great country no more,
But it's as great as it ever was,
Mr. President I don't know what you do,
But I'm sure you do it well,
They say that all your toil is for me,
Maybe you should just rest a spell.

I'm a hard working man they say you've lost touch,
I know this ain't true.

Hey can't you help me,
I'm really hungry,
I love my country,
I fought and would have died.

I went when I was just eighteen,
To a land as strange as strange can be,
I came back home they said I'd changed,
I did my best to rearrange,
I took a wife we had a good life,
I came home one night and she had done the knife,
And then things got bad and lately things have been worse,
I feel like I'm some god damn curse,
I lost my job now I'm on the streets,
Can you tell me what happens to a man's dreams?

Mr. President; can you hear me,
(can you hear me, can you hear me).

Nov. 92

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from Troubleshooting the Cosmos, released March 31, 1993

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