That Was the President (LP版)

That Was The President (LP版) - Phil Ochs

The bullets of the false revenge

Have struck us once again

As the angry seas have

Struck upon the sand

And it seemed as though a friendless

World had lost itself a friend

That was the President and that was the man

I still can see him smiling there

And waving at the crowd

As he drove through the music of the band

And never even knowing no

More time would be allowed

Not for the President and not for the man

Here's a memory to share

Here's a memory to save

Of the sudden early ending of command

Yet a part of you and a part of

Me is buried in his grave

That was the President and that was the man

It's not only for the leader

That the sorrow hits so hard

There are greater things

I'll never understand

How a man so filled with life

Even death was caught off guard

That was the President and that was the man

Every thing he might have

Done and all he could have been

Was proven by the troubled traitors hand

For what other death could

Wound the hearts of so many men

That was the President and that was the man

Yes the glory that was Lincoln's

Never died when he was slain

It's been carried over time and time again

And to the list of honor you may add another name

That was the President and that was the man

That was the President and that was the man