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Here's to the State of Richard Nixon Lyrics

Here's to the State of Richard Nixon
For underneath his borders the devil draws no line
If you drag his muddy rivers nameless bodies you will find
And the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes
And the calender is lyin' when it reads the present time
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the schools Richard Nixon
Where they're teaching all the children they don't have to care
All the rudiments of hatred are present everywhere
And every single classroom is a factory of despair
Oh, there's nobody learnin' such as foreign word as fair
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the laws Richard Nixon
Where the wars are fought in secret, Pearl Harbor every day
He punishes with income tax that he don't have to pay
And he's tapping his own brother just to here what he would say
But corruption can be classic in the Richard Nixon way
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the churches Richard Nixon and Billy Graham
Where the cross, once made of silver, now is caked with rust
And the Sunday mornin sermons pander to their lust
All the fallen face of Jesus is chokin' in the dust
And Heaven only knows in which God they can trust
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of

And here's to the government Richard Nixon
In the swamp of their bureaucracy their always boggin' down
And criminals are posing as advisors to the crown
And they hope that no one sees the sights and no one hears the sound
And the speeches of the President are the ravings of a clown
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Richard Nixon find yourself another country to be part of
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Cover art for Here's to the State of Richard Nixon lyrics by Phil Ochs

I have updated this one to "Here's to the State of Georgie Dubbya!" Everything that Ochs says about Tricky Dicky is even more true of Little Georgie, the Coward in Chief. I change the Billy Graham reference to Jerry Falwell, although last I knew Graham was still around.

Cover art for Here's to the State of Richard Nixon lyrics by Phil Ochs

what album is this from.

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Cover art for Here's to the State of Richard Nixon lyrics by Phil Ochs

I think this is on some hard to find compilation album, not sure what the title of the album was. It was also IIRC originally released as one side of a single. It is basically a re-write of "Here's to the State of Mississippi" which was on the "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" album.

Cover art for Here's to the State of Richard Nixon lyrics by Phil Ochs

it's on 'there but for fortune' which is a compilation which i got from amazon.com.

Cover art for Here's to the State of Richard Nixon lyrics by Phil Ochs

I think it was originally on the compilation "Chords of Fame"... But it's been on a couple others since then.

 
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