Em    G    Am    C  
E|--7-----3----5-----8--|
B|--8-----3----5-----8--|
G|--9-----4----5-----9--|
D|--9-----5----7-----10-|
A|--7-----5----7-----10-|
E|--x-----3----5-----8--|

Listen to the song for the fluid strumming pattern

[Intro]
Em - G - Am - C x2
Election time is comin'
Em - G - Am - C x2

[Chorus]
Em       G
If I was president,
        Am         C       Em              G
I'd get elected on Friday, assassinated on Saturday,
Am        C
buried on Sunday.
Em       G
If I was president...
Am       C
If I was president

[Verse]
Em         G                            Am              C
An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,
       Em               G             Am   C
we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.
  Em           G             Am                     C
I know some so poor, when it rains that's when they shower,
Em        G
screaming "FIGHT THE POWER".
                Am      C
That's when the vulture devoured. 

Em       G
If I was president...
Am       C
If I was president

Em                  G
But the radio won't play this.
     Am              C
They call this rebel music.
Em          G          Am          C
How can you refuse it, children of Moses? 

[Chorus]
Em       G
If I was president...
Am       C
If I was president
Em                    G
Tell the children the truth, the truth!
Am                   C
Christopher Columbus didn't discover America.
Em            G
Tell them the truth, the truth YEAH! 
Am              C
Tell them about Marcus Garvey.
Em                    G
Tell the children the truth YEAH! the truth!
Am             C
Tell them about Martin Luther King.
Em            G
Tell them the truth,
G
The Truth.
Am              C
Tell them about JFK
Em       G
If I was president,
        Am         C       Em              G
I'd get elected on Friday, assassinated on Saturday,
Am        C
buried on Sunday.
Em       G
If I was president...
Am       C       Em
If I was president