Ben Franklin's Song letra

Electricity!
Yeah, you can all thank me
Took some lightning, a kite, and a fat brass key
And they're putting up streetlights in gay paris
You’re welcome from our young nation

I’m the only american the french wanna see
They call me a genius, I can’t disagree
They have guns, they have funds
They can set us free
Invest in my reputation

And do you know who the fuck I am?
Yeah, do you know who the fuck I am?
Do you know who the fuck I am?
I am poor-richard’s-almanack-writing benjamin fuckin’ franklin

I said, early to bed, bitches, early to rise
They make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
Soldiers are fighting for freedom, they have no supplies
So diplomacy happens at night

Johns debates at the gates of versailles
He whines and parades and awaits a reply
As I stay up late with a succulent breast or a thigh
Alright, diplomacy happens at night

And do you know who the fuck I am?
Yeah, do you know who the fuck I am?
Do you know who the fuck I am?
I am 76-and-I’ll-still-kick-your-ass fuckin’ franklin

One pain that lingers, the itch in my stride
Is my son back at home who I could not guide
Who sits all alone in a prison cell on the wrong side
Stands against our young nation

So I play my ambassador part with pride
I am known in the world, and the world is wide
To my children, my sins may be magnified, but I’d
Do it all again, no hesitation

And do you know who the fuck I am?
Yeah, do you know who the fuck I am?
Do you know who the fuck I am?
I am poor-richard’s-almanack-writing benjamin fuckin’ franklin

Who the fuck I am?
Who the fuck I am?
Who the fuck I am?
I am poor-richard’s-almanack-writing
Polymath, bifocal-wearing
Hardened glass-harmonica-playing
Benjamin fuckin’ franklin

The Decemberists - Letras

• 12/17/12
• 16 By 32
• A Beginning Song
• A Bower Scene
• A Cautionary Song
• All Arise!
• Angel, Won't You Call Me?
• Annan Water
• Anti-Summersong
• Apology Song
• As I Rise
• Ben Franklin's Song
• Better Not Wake The Baby
• Billy Liar
• Bridges And Balloons
• Burial Ground (feat. James Mercer)
• Calamity Song
• California One
• California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
• Carolina Low
• Cavalry Captain
• Clementine
• Cocoon
• Constantinople
• Cullin of the Fold
• Dear Avery
• Don't Carry It All
• Down By The Water
• Easy Come, Easy Go
• Eli, The Barrowboy
• Everything I Try To Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right
• Foregone
• From My Own True Love (lost At Sea)
• Grace Cathedral Hill
• Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
• Human Behavior
• I
• I Don't Mind
• I Was Meant For The Stage
• II
• III
• Isn't It A Lovely Night?
• IV
• January Hymn
• Julianne
• July, July!
• June Hymn
• Lake Song
• Leslie Anne Levine
• Like A Lion
• Los Angeles, I'm Yours
• Make You Better
• Margaret In Captivity
• Mistral
• My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist
• O Valencia
• O Valencia!
• Oceanside
• Ocenside
• Odalisque
• Of Angels And Angles
• On The Bus Mall
• Once In My Life
• One Engine
• Philomena
• Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
• Record Year
• Red Right Ankle
• Rise To Me
• Riverswim
• Row Jimmy
• Rox In The Box
• Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
• Severed
• Shankill Butchers
• Shanty For The Arethusa
• Shiny
• Sixteen Military Wives
• Sleepless
• Song For The Myla Goldberg
• Sons & Daughters
• Sucker's Prayer
• Summersong
• Sunshine
• The Abduction Of Margaret
• The Apology Song
• The Bachelor And The Bride
• The Bagman's Gambit
• The Bandit Queen
• The Chimbley Sweep
• The Crane Wife 1 and 2
• The Crane Wife 3
• The Engine Driver
• The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
• The Hazards Of Love (Revenge!)
• The Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)
• The Hazards Of Love 2 (Wager All)
• The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
• The Infanta
• The Island
• The Island: Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drow
• The Kingdom Of Spain
• The Landlord's Daughter
• The Legionnaire's Lament
• The Mariner's Revenge Song
• The Perfect Crime 2
• The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
• The Rake's Song
• The Singer Addresses His Audience
• The Soldiering Life
• The Sporting Life
• The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V)
• The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
• The Wrong Year
• This Is Why We Fight
• Till The Water's All Long Gone
• Traveling On
• V
• Valerie Plame
• VI
• We Both Go Down Together
• When the War Came
• Why Would I Now?
• Won't Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga)
• Wonder
• Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
• Youth and Beauty Brigade