#

James K. Polk
by They Might Be Giants
Factory Showroom, 1996 (although written in 1990 and played often live)

C      G      C      F     (2x)

CC Piano Chord 
		    GG Piano Chord 
	     CC Piano Chord 
	  FF Piano Chord 
	     CC Piano Chord 
     GG Piano Chord 
	CC Piano Chord 
	FF Piano Chord 

In eighteen forty-four, the Democrats were split
The three nominees for the presidential candidate
were Martin Van Buren, a former president,
CC Piano Chord 
   FF Piano Chord 
 	  GG Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 

and an abol-ition-ist
James Buchanan, a moderate
CC Piano Chord 
	FF Piano Chord 
      GG Piano Chord 
     FF Piano Chord 
     GG Piano Chord 
	GG Piano Chord 

Lewis Cass, a general and expansionist.
CC Piano Chord 
	 FF Piano Chord 
	 CC Piano Chord 
	GG Piano Chord 
	CC Piano Chord 
	GG Piano Chord 
	CC Piano Chord 
	FF Piano Chord 

He was James K. Polk, "Napoleon of the Stump."

Austere, severe, he held few people dear.
His oratory filled his foes with fear.
The factions soon agreed, "he's just the man we need,
to bring about victory,
fulfill our manifest destiny
and annex the land the Mexicans command."
And when the vote was cast the winner was
Mister James K. Polk, "Napoleon of the Stump."

In four short years he met his every goal:
he seized the whole Southwest from Mexico,
made sure the tariffs fell, and made the English sell,
the Oregon Territory,
he built an independent treasury.
Having done all this he sought no second term.
But precious few have mourned the passing of --
CC Piano Chord 
	 FF Piano Chord 
	   CC Piano Chord 
	    GG Piano Chord 
   DD Piano Chord 
   EE Piano Chord 

Mister James K. Polk our eleventh president
CC Piano Chord 
   FF Piano Chord 
 	    CC Piano Chord 
	   GG Piano Chord 
	    CC Piano Chord 
    GG Piano Chord 
	CC Piano Chord 
	FF Piano Chord 
	CC Piano Chord 

"Young Hickory," "Napoleon of the Stump."

transcription by Brian Luskey