WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN HOOVER

(Tom Paxton)



What a friend we have in Hoover

Freedom has no truer friend

Is your thinking left of center?

He will get you in the end

Does your telephone sound funny?

Is some stranger standing by?

Do not bother your repairman

Take it to the FBI



Are you now or have you ever

Been a member of a cell?

Are you running short of comrades?

Things aren't going very well?

Is the Daily Worker falt'ring?

Has your treasury gone dry?

Half your comrades know the answer:

Take it to the FBI



It's purely for investigation

As all its records plainly show

And that it has no further powers

Dillinger should only know

If you're bombed in Mississippi

And the cops ride gaily by

Just find the sheriff's closest buddy

Just take it to the FBI



Martin Luther King's a liar

His movement's full of shady guys

The nobel people must be crazy

They went and handed him a prize

It's wrong to criticize the Bureau

And any patriotic guy

Would round up Warren's whole Committee

And take it to the FBI



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Copyright Tom Paxton

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