Do you know of any ex.Presidents..Prime Ministers and Leaders that have been mentioned in a Song.

1.Talking of JFK.. April Sun in Cuba (1977..Dragon)

2.Gastro in the alleyway.. April Sun in Cuba (1977..Dragon)

Dick and Pat in ole D.C.,
well they're gonna hold some shit for me.

Long ago life was clean
Sex was bad and obscene
And the rich were so mean
Stately homes for the Lords
Croquet lawns, village greens
Victoria was my queen
Victoria, Victoria, Victoria, 'toria

Kennedy - SFTD

tin soldiers and Nixon coming
we're finally on our own
[thrasherswheat.org]

the Kennedys....Shona Laing

PMs Wilson and Heath in the Beatles' "Taxman"

The Roosevelt Song -Leadbelly
Eisenhower Blues - JB Lenoir

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Do you know of any ex.Presidents..Prime Ministers and Leaders that have been mentioned in a Song.

1.Talking of JFK.. April Sun in Cuba (1977..Dragon)

2.Gastro in the alleyway.. April Sun in Cuba (1977..Dragon)

that sounds more like a medical complaint...

Winston Churchill - Oliver's Army, Elvis Costello.

...I am Emperor Ronald Reagan
Born again with fascist cravings
Still, you made me president

Human rights will soon go 'way
I am now your Shah today
Now I command all of you
Now you're going to pray in school
I'll make sure they're Christian too

California Uber alles
Uber alles California ...

from "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now" by the Dead Kennedys

Mrs Thatcher-

Stand Down Margaret-The Beat

Margaret on the Guillotine-Morrissey

Tramp The Dirt Down-Elvis Costello (When England was the whore of the world
Margaret was her madam)

I'm sure there must be more as well.

Brezhnev took Afghanistan
Begin took Beirut
Galtieri took the Union Jack
and Maggie over lunch one day
Took a cruiser with all hands
Apparently to make him give it back...

Get your Filthy Hands off my Desert..ROGER WATERS/PINK FLOYD

Don't forget the great Jimmy Cliff

Wonderful world, beautiful people
You and your girl, things could be pretty
But underneath this there is a secret
That nobody can reveal

Take a look at the world
And the state that it's in today
I am sure you'll agree
We all could make it a better way

With our love put together
Everybody learn to love each other
Instead of fussing and fighting
Cheating, backbiting
Scandalizing and hating

Baby, we could have a (CHORUS)

Yeah, now

Man and woman, girl and boy
Let us try to give a helping hand
This I know and I'm sure
That with love we all could understand

This is our world, can't you see
Everybody wants to live and be free
Instead of fussing and fighting
Cheating, backbiting
Scandalizing and hating

We could have a (CHORUS)

Hmm, yeah, yeah

Talking about the wonderful world, beautiful people
You and your girl, Things could be pretty,
talking bout Nixon, Harold Wilson, Pompidou and Kosygin......

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......do you remember, your president Nixon, do you remember, the bills you had to pay

Castro in Indian Girl.

Rolling Stones' HOLD BACK:

"If you look in your history book, if you delve in the past,
Stalin and Roosevelt, yeah, they both took their chances.
And George grasped the nettle, it's do or dare
From the banks of the Delaware."

(Incidentally, what's with the Stalin reference? Stalin murdered 20 million of his own people. and enslaved millions in the Gulag system.)



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Kennedy. Born in the 50's , Police.
Thatcher. Birth, school, work, death. The Godfathers.

technically not thread related, but in the live versions of When The Whip comes down, two Governors are mentioned. Brown and Rockefeller.

edit... Didn't realize Rockefeller was also VP.



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We Didnt Start The Fire by Billy Joel mentions

US presidents - Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon (twice), Kennedy (twice), Reagan

Other US politicians - Joseph McCarthy, Rockefeller (probably refers to the family as opposed to the former vice-President)

Non US heads of state and Premiers - Stalin, Nasser, Juan Peron, Malenkov, Princess Grace, Khruschev, Chou En-lai, Charles de Gaulle, Castro, Pope Paul VI, Ho Chi Minh, Menachem Begin, 'Ayatollahs In Iran', 'England's Got A new Queen'

'Mythical' Kings & Tenuous Links - 'The King and I', Elvis Presley (!), Davy Crockett (well, he WAS 'King of the wild frontier', wasnt he?)

I think Billy wins!



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We Didnt Start The Fire by Billy Joel mentions

US presidents - Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon (twice), Kennedy (twice), Reagan

Other US politicians - Joseph McCarthy, Rockefeller (probably refers to the family as opposed to the former vice-President)

Non US heads of state and Premiers - Stalin, Nasser, Juan Peron, Malenkov, Princess Grace, Khruschev, Chou En-lai, Charles de Gaulle, Castro, Pope Paul VI, Ho Chi Minh, Menachem Begin, 'Ayatollahs In Iran', 'England's Got A new Queen'

'Mythical' Kings & Tenuous Links - 'The King and I', Elvis Presley (!), Davy Crockett (well, he WAS 'King of the wild frontier', wasnt he?)

I think Billy wins!

Maybe that's why he doesn't write songs anymore. He put everything except the kitchen sink into that one!

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Rolling Stones' HOLD BACK:

"If you look in your history book, if you delve in the past,
Stalin and Roosevelt, yeah, they both took their chances.
And George grasped the nettle, it's do or dare
From the banks of the Delaware."

(Incidentally, what's with the Stalin reference? Stalin murdered 20 million of his own people. and enslaved millions in the Gulag system.)

Ha ha! I always shook my head at that line. "Hey, Uncle Joe, you took an awful chance starving and killing all those 10-15 million."

Sweet Neo Con - Everybody knows it was George Bush



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Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody Haha



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Harry Truman - Chicago

Did the Presidents of the United States of America have one?

Lump is close:

Abraham Martin and John - Dion

George Bush

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