Luyện nghe bài hát The Pause of Mr. Claus

words and music by Guthrie

This next song we're to dedicate to a great American
organization. Tonight I'd like to this to our boys
in the FBI.

Well, a minute. It's hard to be an FBI man. I mean, first
of all, being an FBI man, you have to be over 40 old.
And the reason is that it takes at 25 years with the
organization to be that of a bastard. It's true. You just
join, you know. It needs an atmosphere where your
natural can grow and develop and take a
meaningful shape in complex society.

But that's not why I want to dedicate the to the FBI. I
mean, the job that have to do is a drag. I mean, they have
to follow around, you know. That's part of their job.
me around.

I'm out on the and I'm drivin' down the road and I
run out of gasoline. I over to the side of the road. They
gotta pull over too - make believe they ran out, you
know.

I go to get some gasoline. have to figure out whether
they should stick with the car or follow me. I don't
come back and they're with the car.

Or if I fly on the airplanes, I fly half fare because I'm 12
to 22. And gotta pay the full fare. But the thing is that
when you pay the full fare, you have to get on the
first, so that know how many seats are left over for the
half fare kids. Right? And sometimes there aren't any
left over, and sometimes there are, but that doesn't mean
you to go.

that he gets on and fills up the last seat, so you can't
get on. Then he off then you can get on. What's he gonna
do?

Well, it's a drag for him. But not why I want to dedicate
the to the FBI.

During these hard days and hard weeks, everybody
has it bad once in a while. You know, you a bad time of
it, and you always have a friend who "Hey man, you
ain't got it that bad. Look at guy." And you at that
guy, and he's got it worse than you. And it makes you
that there's somebody that's got it worse than you.

But think of the last guy. For one minute, of the last
guy. Nobody's got it worse that guy. Nobody in the
whole world. guy...he's so alone in the world that he
doesn't have a street to lay in for a truck to run him over.
He's out there nothin'. Nothin's happenin' for that cat.

And all that he has to do to create a little in his
own is to bum a dime from somewhere, call up the FBI.
Say "FBl?", they say "Yes", say "I dig Ho and Chair-
man Mao, and friends are comin' over for dinner" (click)
up the phone.

And within two minutes, and not two minutes from he
hangs up the phone, but two minutes from he first put
the dime in, they got 30,000 feet of tape rollin'; on tape;
pictures, movies, dramas, actions on tape. But then send
out a half a million people all over the world, the globe,
they out all they can about this guy.

'Cause there's a number of involved in the guy. I
mean, if he was the last guy in the world, he get a dime
to call the FBI? are plenty of people that aren't the last
guys can't get dimes. He comes along and he gets a dime.

I mean, if he had to bum a dime to the FBI, how was he
gonna serve for all of those people? How could the
last guy dinner for all those people. And if he could
make dinner, and was make dinner, then why did he
the FBI?

They find out all of those questions two minutes. And
that's a great thing America. I mean, this is the only
country in the world...l mean, well, it's not the only
in the that could find stuff out in two minutes, but it's
the country in the world that would take two minutes
for guy.

countries would say "Hey, he's the last guy...screw
him", you But in America, there is no discrimination,
and there is no hypocrisy,'cause they'll get anybody. And
a wonderful about America.

And why tonight I'd like to dedicate it to every FBI
man in the audience. I you can't say nothin', you know,
you get up and say "Hi!" cause then everybody knows
that you're an FBI man and a drag for you and your
friends.

not really your friends, are they? I mean, so you can't
get up and say nothin' 'cause other wise, you get sent
back to the and that's a drag for you and it's an
for the government, and that's a drag for you.

We're sing you this Christmas carol. It's for all you
out there in the audience tonight. It's called "The
of Mr. Claus".

Why do you sit so strange?
Is it you are beautiful?
You must think you are
Why do police beat on peace guys?

You must Santa Clause weird
He has long and a beard
Giving his for free
Why do guys mess with peace guys?

Let's get Santa 'cause;
Santa Clause has a red
a communist
And a beard, and long
be a pacifist
What's in the pipe he's smoking?

Mister Clause in your home at night.
He must be a fiend, to put you up tight
Why do police beat on peace guys?