Ben Franklin's Song (Clean)

Ben Franklin's Song (Clean) - The Decemberists

Electricity

Yeah you can all thank me

Took some lightning a kite and a fat brass key

And they're putting up streetlights in gay Paris

You're welcome from our young nation

I'm the only American the french wanna see

They call me a genius I can't disagree

They have guns they have funds

They can set us free

Invest in my reputation

And do you know who the F I am

Yeah do you know who the F I am

Do you know who the F I am

I am poor Richard's Almanac writing Benjamin Effing Franklin

I said early to bed boys early to rise

They make a man healthy wealthy and wise

Soldiers are fighting for freedom they have no supplies

So diplomacy happens at night

John debates at the gates of Versailles

He whines and parades and awaits a reply

As I stay up late with a succulent breast or a thigh

Alright diplomacy happens at night

And do you know who the F I am

Yeah do you know who the F I am

Do you know who the F I am

I am 76 and I'll still kick your a** Effing Franklin

One pain that lingers the hitch in my stride

Is my son back at home who I could not guide

Who sits all alone in a prison cell on the wrong side

Stands against our young nation

So I play my ambassador part with pride

I am known in the world and the world is wide

To my children my sins may be magnified but I'd

Do it all again no hesitation

And do you know who the F I am

Yeah do you know who the F I am

Do you know who the F I am

I am poor Richard's Almanack writing Benjamin Effing Franklin

Do you know who the F I am who the F I am

Do you know who the F I am who the F I am

Do you know who the F I am

I am poor Richard's Almanack writing

Polymath bifocal wearing

Hardened glass harmonica playing

Benjamin Effing Franklin