A Lamentation on the Death of President William Henry Harrison
(words and music © 2001 James Kushner)

Intro: (guitar fingerings relative to capo3):

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Chorus:
     F - C7 -   He spoke bareheaded in the rain, dear friends
     F - C7 -   He spoke bareheaded in the rain
     F - Bb F   He spoke in the rain, now he'll never speak again
     F C7 F -   He spoke bareheaded in the rain

F - Bb F   Oh, at Tippecanoe, the In'juns he slew
F - C7 -   He burned them alive in their tents
F - Bb -   But to put on a hat or come in out the rain
F C7 F -   He just didn't have the sense

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He had what it took to beat Old Kinderhook
He was a log-cabin hard-cider man
And he served in office only twenty-eight days
Maybe that was the Whigs' real plan

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On Inauguration Day he had a lot to say
His address lasted over two hours
The pneumonia hit his chest and when April rolled around
He was in Ohio pushing up the flowers

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Oh, Lincoln was done in by an assassin's gun
     (along with Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy)
Warren Harding was poisoned by his wife
But the not-so-gory story is that hoary oratory
Ended Bill Harrison's life

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