Luyện nghe bài hát The Pause of Mr. Claus

words and by Arlo Guthrie

This next song we're going to dedicate to a American
organization. Tonight I'd like to dedicate this to our
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 least 25 years the
organization to be that much of a bastard. true. You just
can't join, you know. It needs an atmosphere your
natural bastardness can 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 they have to do is a drag. I mean, they
to follow people around, you know. part of their job.
me around.

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

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

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

Suppose that he gets on and up the last seat, so you can't
get on. Then he gets off then you can get on. 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 in a while. You know, you have 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 than you. And it makes you feel
better that there's that's got it worse than you.

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

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

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

'Cause a number of questions involved in the guy. I
mean, if he was the last guy in the world, he get a dime
to the FBI? There are plenty of people that aren't the last
guys that 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 dinner for all of those How could the
last guy make for all those people. And if he could
make dinner, and was gonna dinner, then why did he
the FBI?

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

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

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

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

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

Why do you sit there so
Is it you are beautiful?
You think you are deranged
Why do guys beat on peace guys?

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

get Santa Clause 'cause;
Santa Clause has a red
He's a
And a beard, and hair
Must be a
What's in the pipe that smoking?

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