Intro: Bb F Gm F
Verse:
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Dear Mr President, come take a walk with me
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Lets pretend, we're just two people and, you're not better than me,
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I'd like to, ask you some questions if we could, speak honestly.
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What do you feel when you see the homeless on the street?
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Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
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What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
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Are you proud?
Chorus:
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How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
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How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
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How do you walk with your head held high?
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Can you even look me in the eye?
And tell me why
Interlude: Bb F Gm F
Verse:
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Dear Mr president, were you a lonley boy
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Were you a lonley boy?
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How can you say, no child is left behind
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we're not dumb, and we're not blind
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They're all sitting in your cells
while you pave the road to hell
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What kind of father might take his own daughter right away?
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And what kind of father might hates his own daughter if she were gay?
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I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
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you've come a long way, from whiskey and cocaine
Chorus:
Bb F Cm Cm Eb
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
Bb F Cm Eb
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
Bb F Cm Cm Eb
How do you walk with your head held high?
Gm F Eb
Can you even look me in the eye?
Bridge:
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Let me tell you 'bot hard work
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minimum wage with a baby on the way
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Let me tell you 'bot hard work
Cm Eb
Re-building your house after the bombs took them away
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Let me tell you 'bout hard work
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building a bed out of a cardboard box
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Let me tell you 'bout hard work, hard work, hard work
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You don't know nothing 'bout hard work, hard work
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Hard work!
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How do you sleep at night?
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How do you walk, with your head held high
Outro:
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Dear Mr president you'd never take a walk with me
ummm, would you.