Just checking out Dan's site and caught this. Gene - here's your chance - the chords are all there - play it - record it - and upload it. Or not. Anyway - here's what Dan wrote about the song on his site and then the lyrics and chords. Dan Bern's site is at http://www.danbern.com
Dan
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Here is another announcement from Dan:
please be advised that august 31, 2004 will see the release of a disc of new songs, with the title, "my country II." these are 8 songs recorded mostly with the IJBC. i think of them as "music to beat bush by." hopefully you will laugh, cry, gesticulate wildly, twitch, and be moved to take to the streets with painted bedsheets and anarchistic slogans. along with listening to "my country II," it is recommended that sometime between now and november 2 you attend a rally, hold a sign, chant, challenge someone to "say what it is you mean, exactly" while playing board games in a public ale house, and otherwise involve yourself personally in throwing the bums out. and, should you decide that bush and his evil gang are actually a pretty swell bunch after all, remember that the song "bush must be defeated" is after all simply a nice little song with a swell melody, that you can sing to your friends and the people at the grocery store, purely for its merits as a song. see you out there. have a great fall. --d.b.
Bush Must Be Defeated*
bush must be defeated
bush must be defeated
bush must be defeated
bush must be defeated
bush must be defeated
his evil gang unseated
his base of power deleted
his energy depleted
bush must be defeated
further services unneeded
his departure speeded
there's a land but you don't lead it
bush must be defeated
the rose garden weeded
a new frontier reseeded
we'll no longer let you bleed it
bush must be defeated
this mistake not be repeated
our desires not go unheeded
we will not twice be cheated
bridge:
bush must be defeated
his goodbye coffee heated
his inaugural spats uncleated
his white house bed short-sheeted
bush must be defeated
his welcome's been exceeded
successors must be greeted
the imposter excreted
bush must be defeated, etc.
* The chords are very simple. The verses are all E-C#minor-A-B, and the bridge section is A-C#m-A-B.
or if you prefer, G-Em-C-D and the bridge, C-Em-C-D.
