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
If I was president,
I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,
buried on Sunday.
If I was president...
If I was president
An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,
we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.
I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,
screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".
That's when the vulture devoured.
[chorus]
If I was president...
If I was president
But the radio won't play this.
They call this rebel music.
How can you refuse it, children of Moses?
[Chorus]
If I was president...
If I was president
Tell the children the truth, the truth!
Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.
Tell them the truth, the truth YEAH!
Tell them about Marcus Garvey.
Tell the children the truth YEAH! the truth!
Tell them about Martin Luther King.
Tell them the truth,
The Truth.
Tell them about JFK
If I was president,
I'd get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,
buried on Sunday.
If I was president...
If I was president
- Wyclef Jean