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 dedicate this to our
in the FBI.

Well, a minute. It's hard to be an FBI man. I mean, first
of all, an FBI man, you have to be over 40 years old.
And the reason is that it at least 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
bastardness can grow and develop and take a
meaningful in today's complex society.

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

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

I go to get some gasoline. have to figure out whether
they stick with the car or follow me. Suppose I don't
back and they're stayin' 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 they know how many seats are left over for the
half fare kids. Right? And sometimes aren't any seats
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 that's not why I to dedicate
the to the FBI.

During hard days and hard weeks, everybody always
has it bad once in a while. You know, you have a bad of
it, and you have a friend who says "Hey man, you
ain't got it that bad. Look at that guy." And you at
guy, and he's got it than you. And it makes you feel
better that 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 than that guy. in the
world. That 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.
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 Ho and Chair-
man Mao, and their friends are over for dinner" (click)
up the phone.

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

'Cause there's a number of involved in the guy. I
mean, if he was the last guy in the world, how'd he get a
to call the There 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
guy make dinner for all those people. And if he could
make dinner, and was gonna dinner, then why did he
call the

They find out all of those questions two minutes. And
that's a great about America. I mean, this is the only
country in the world...l mean, well, it's not the country
in the world that could find out in two minutes, but it's
the only country in the that would 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 they'll get anybody. And
a thing 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 can't get up and say "Hi!" cause then knows
that you're an FBI man and a drag for you and your
friends.

They're not really your friends, are I mean, so you can't
get up and say nothin' other 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 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 there so
Is it you are beautiful?
You must you are deranged
Why do police beat on peace guys?

You must think Santa Clause
He has long hair and a
his presents for free
Why do police guys with peace guys?

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

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