{"id":2741,"date":"2006-04-26T19:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2007-09-09T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T08:02:15","slug":"lyrics-to-neil-youngs-lets-impeach-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics to Neil Young’s ‘Let’s Impeach the President’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox “News”, of all sites, posts<\/a> the full lyrics to Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President” tune to be released this Friday online along with his Living With War<\/i> album.<\/p>

[See BRAD BLOG’s (p)review of the album<\/a> as posted last weekend<\/i>.]<\/p>

Says Roger Friedman at Fox about the album; “[It’s] an incendiary, moving, totally American document of peaceful protest that is going to make a lot of people crazy one way or another.”<\/p>\n

He calls it “serious and searing” and an “extraordinary and eye opening new recording.”<\/p>\n

About “Let’s Impeach the President,” Friedman describes it as “a melodic, rocking, campfire ode” and “the catchiest protest song since Country Joe and the Fish’s anti-Vietnam ditty, ‘I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die.'”<\/p>\n

Enough hype for ya? Okay, then…<\/p>\n

Here, for the first time, the lyrics to Neil Young’s “Let’s Impeach the President”:<\/p>\n

Let’s impeach the president for lying
\nAnd leading our country into war
\nAbusing all the power that we gave him
\nAnd shipping all our money out the door
\nHe’s the man who hired all the criminals
\nThe White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
\nAnd bend the facts to fit with their new stories
\nOf why we have to send our men to war<\/p>\n

Let’s impeach the president for spying
\nOn citizens inside their own homes
\nBreaking every law in the country
\nBy tapping our computers and telephones
\nWhat if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
\nWould New Orleans have been safer that way
\nSheltered by our government’s protection
\nOr was someone just not home that day?<\/p>\n

Let’s impeach the president
\nFor hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
\nDividing our country into colors
\nAnd still leaving black people neglected
\nThank god he’s racking down on steroids
\nSince he sold his old baseball team
\nThere’s lot of people looking at big trouble
\nBut of course the president is clean
\nThank God<\/i><\/div>\n

While waiting for Friday, be sure to check out Op-Critical’s new protest songs<\/a> (and video contest), which RAW STORY covered<\/a> a day or two ago, along with Justice Through Music’s collection of protest tunes<\/a> to hold you over.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 4\/28\/06:<\/b> The complete album — as well as the single “Let’s Impeach the President — is now released online for your listening pleasure…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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