If I Was President Chords

   E     G    Am    C  Em
E--0-----3----0--------0-
B--0-----0----1-----1--0-
G--1-----0----2-----0--0-
D--2-----0----2-----2--2-
A--2-----2----0-----3--2-
E--0-----3-------------0-

Listen to the song for the fluid strumming pattern

Intro

E - G - Am - C x 2

Election time is comin

E - G - Am - C x 2

E	 G

If I was president,

        Am	   C	   E		  G

I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,

Am	  C

buried on Sunday.

E	 G

If I was president...

Am       C

If I was president

E	   G	                        Am		C

An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,

       E	        G             Am   C

we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.

  E            G             Am	                    C

I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,

E         G

screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".

                Am      C

That's when the vulture devoured. 

[chorus]

E        G

If I was president...

Am       C

If I was president

E                   G

But the radio won't play this.

     Am              C

They call this rebel music.

E           G          Am          C

How can you refuse it, children of Moses? 

[Chorus]

E        G

If I was president...

Am       C

If I was president

E                     G

Tell the children the truth, the truth!

Am                   C

Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.

E             G

Tell them the truth, the truth YEAH! 

Am              C

Tell them about Marcus Garvey.

E                     G

Tell the children the truth YEAH! the truth!

Am              C

Tell them about Martin Luther King.

E             G

Tell them the truth,

G

The Truth.

Am              C

Tell them about JFK

E 	 G

If I was president,

        Am	   C	   E		  G

I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,

Am	  C

buried on Sunday.

E	 G

If I was president...

Am       C       Em

If I was president

- Wyclef Jean