The Dean Rusk Song - Bill Frederick Chords
Chords: G, C, D7, G7
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Genre: folk, protest, political
From The Vietnam Songbook (1969), edited by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber.
[Verse 1]
G C G
Oh, I'm weary and I'm harried and I don't know what to do,
D7
There's no end to all the troubles that I'm in.
G C
In the lands that I'm patrollin' revolutions are unrollin',
G D7 G
My antennae can't see any way to win.
C G
I'm the people's best policeman, here to guard them while I fleece them,
C D7
But their sleeping habits aren't really fair.
G G7 C D7
And I recently have found that the world is really round and the little men
G
are movin' everywhere.
[Chorus]
C
Leave us alone,
G
Leave us alone,
C D7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
G G7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
C
And I might not bomb your land,
D7 G
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 2]
G C G
Oh, once there was a savior and he lived in old Saigon,
D7
And the people really loved our man Diem.
G C
Cardinal Spellman gave him power, helped along by Eisenhower
G D7 G
And professors from the state of Michigan.
C G
He got some ammunition and he crushed his opposition,
C D7
He was bloody, but he wasn't very sharp,
G G7 C
'Cause our puppet broke his string, and he thought he'd like to sing,
D7 G
So we issued him a halo and a harp.
[Chorus]
C
Leave us alone,
G
Leave us alone,
C D7
Just find yourself a country of your own,
G G7
Lick my boots and kiss my hand
C
And I might not bomb your land,
D7 G
Go to sleep and stop your mischief, little man.
[Verse 3]
G C G
Then the generals took over and took over and took over,
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