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We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again

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We've Got Franklin D. Roosevelt Back Again

Just hand me my old Martin for soon I will be startin'
Back to dear old Charleston far away
Since Roosevelt's been re-elected, we'll not be neglected
We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again

     Back again, back again
     We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again
     Since Roosevelt's been re-elected
     Moon liquor's been corrected
     We've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin

I'll take a drink of brandy and let myself be handy
Good old times are coming back again
You can laugh and tell a joke, you can dance and drink and smoke
We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again
     We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again
     We'll have money in our jeans
     We can travel with the queen
     We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again

No more breadlines, we're happy to say the donkey won election
     day
No more standing in the blowing, snowing rain
He's got things in full swing, we're all working and getting our
     pay
We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again

     We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again
     Since Roosevelt's been re-elected
     Moon liquor's been corrected
     We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again

recorded by Bill Cox in 1936 one week after the election
also recorded by New Lost City Ramblers
SOF

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!