Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

If I Was The President - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
IF I WAS THE PRESIDENT. Sung by Marlow and Regan. 
If I was the President just for a day, I'd have things as I liked, you can bet; I'd invite all the old maids that's up town living out, And for each one a husband I'd get. I'd rent Tammany Hall, I'd invite one and all, To hear John Kelly his talents display; I'd have Roscoe Conkling riding a donkey, If I only had my own way. 
I'd have Central Park in the day time made dark, So the girls could go sparking all day; So their fathers and mothers, and big-fisted brothers, Could not hear or see what they say. I'd make all Michael Feeneys and Baxter Street Sheeneys, To the bums their old clothes give away; I'd throw open the doors of saloons to the poor. If I was President just for a day. 
I'd throw all the Chinamen into the dump; The Italians would pick no more buts; I'd put limburger cheese in the policemen's pockets, I'd colonize Hester Street with the Dutch. I'd fill Harry Hill full of cod liver pills; The dudes on the Bowery should pay Twenty-five cents a week, for wearing women's corsets, If I was the President just for a day.