The Ross Perot Guide to Answering Embarassing Questions

words by Calvin Trillin

music and adaptation by Pete Seeger

When something in my history is found

Which contradicts the views that I propound

Or shows that I perhaps am not the guy I claim to be

Here's what I usually do

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I lie

I simply boldly falsify

I look the other feller in the eye

And just deny, deny, deny

I lie

I don t apologize. Not me. Instead

I say I never said the things I said

Nor did the things some people saw me do

When confronted by some things they know are true

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I hate those weasel words some slickies use

To blur their past or muddy up their views

Not me. I'm blunt. One thing that makes me great

Is that I'll never dodge nor obfuscate

Chorus