Presidential Rag - Arlo Guthrie Chords
Chords: C, F#dim, F, E, E7, Am, Dm, G
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Genre: folk, storytelling, comedy
On 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.
The Am7 or Dm add G are on the & beats after 2 and 3.
Durign the main body, stay on Am one measure at the end of every stanza, and
one at the beginnign of a new
one (2 consecutively) if in the middle of a block of text, play 3 consecutive
measures if there's a one
line space.
Presidential Rag
Spoken:
You know, took me a long time to get around to writin' a Watergate song. I
think because...mainly because
in the beginning of Watergate it was pretty funny, you know? So I said "oh!
I'm gonna write one of them
funny Watergate..." you know:
C F#dim F
Watergate, Watergate but
it sorta got past the point of bein' funny, you know, and went on to new
bigger and better things.
And then I though "oh, I better write one of those satyrical ballads." You
know, like:
E E7
(Played satyrically, like a ballad)
but got past that point. So I never wrote a Watergate song. Until one day, a
little while ago,
I was sitting around and I forgot all about Watergate. And I was sittin'
around playin' the piano and
all of a sudden this song jumped out and wrote itself down. The next day
Spiro resigned.
So I been writing a lot since!
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