If A Song Could Be President

If a song could be president
 We? d hum on Election Day
 The gospel choir would start to sway
 And we? d all have a part to play
 The First Lady would free her hips
 Pull a microphone to her lips
 Break our hearts with rhythm and blues
 Steve Earle would anchor the news
 We? d vote for a melody
 Pass it around on an MP3
 All our best foreign policy
 Would be built on harmony
 If a song could be president
 We? d fly a jukebox to the moon
 All our founding fathers 45? s
 Lightnin? Hopkins and Patsy Cline
 If a song could be president
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 If a song could be president
 We could all add another verse
 Life would teach us to rehearse
 Till we found a key change
 Break out of this minor key
 Half truths and hypocrisy
 We wouldn? t need an underachiever-in-chief
 If a song could be president
 We? d make Neil Young a Senator
 Even though he came from Canada
 Emmy Lou would be Ambassador
 World leaders would listen to her
 They would show us where our country went wrong
 Strum their guitars on the White House lawn
 John Prine would run the FBI
 All the criminals would laugh and cry
 If a song could be president