Luyện nghe bài hát The Pause of Mr. Claus

words and by Arlo Guthrie

This next song we're to dedicate to a great American
organization. I'd like to dedicate 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 40 years old.
And the reason is that it takes at 25 years with the
organization to be much of a bastard. It's true. You just
can't join, you know. It needs an where your
natural bastardness can grow and develop and a
shape in today's complex society.

But not why I want to dedicate the song to the FBI. I
mean, the job that they have to do is a drag. I mean, have
to follow people around, you know. 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 pull to the side of the road. They
pull over too - make believe that they ran out, you
know.

I go to get some gasoline. They have to out whether
they stick with the car or follow me. Suppose 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 they 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
fare kids. Right? And sometimes there aren't any seats
left over, and sometimes 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 you can get on. What's he gonna
do?

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

During these days and hard weeks, everybody always
has it bad in a while. You know, you have a bad time of
it, and you always have a who says "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 somebody that's got it than you.

But think of the last guy. For one minute, 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 have a street to lay in for a truck to run him over.
He's out there with nothin'. happenin' for that cat.

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

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

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

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

They out all of those questions within 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 country
in the world that could stuff out in two minutes, but it's
the only country in the world would take two minutes
for guy.

Other would say "Hey, he's the last guy...screw
him", you know? But in America, 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 it to every FBI
man in the audience. I know you say nothin', you know,
you can't get up and say "Hi!" cause then everybody
that you're an FBI man and that's a drag for you and
friends.

They're not really your friends, are they? I mean, so you
get up and say nothin' 'cause wise, you gotta get sent
to the factory and that's a drag for you and it's an
expense for the government, and a drag for you.

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

Why do you sit there so
Is it because you are
You must you are deranged
Why do police guys beat on guys?

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

Let's get Clause 'cause;
Clause has a red suit
He's a
And a beard, and hair
be a pacifist
What's in the pipe that he's

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